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Monday, December 28, 1998 Published at 11:52 GMT


World: Middle East

Iranian ship explosion


It's emerged that an explosion on board an Iranian navy fuel tanker on Saturday killed five crew members.

The Iranian news agency says ten others who were injured in the explosion at a jetty in the southern port of Bandar Abbas are being treated in hospital for burns.

The agency says the cause of the explosion is not yet known.

From the newsroom of the BBC World Service



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