At least 32 people have been killed in a deadly fire at a drug rehabilitation center in Iran. 16 more people were injured in this incident.
This casualty happened in the fire in the drug rehabilitation center in the northern part of Iran on Friday. Reuters news.
According to reports, at least 32 people were killed today in a massive fire at a drug rehabilitation center in northern Iran, the country’s justice department said. Drug rehabilitation centers mainly treat people who are addicted to alcohol or drugs.
Thirty-two people died and 16 others were hospitalized after a fire broke out at a drug rehabilitation camp in the city of Langarud in Gilan province, north of Tehran, Iran’s Judiciary Department’s Mizan Online news website quoted provincial chief justice Ismail Sadeghi as saying.
Meanwhile, the news agency AP, citing Iran’s state TV, said that the fire broke out in the private drug rehabilitation center in the city of Langarud on Friday morning. The fire was later put out and authorities are now investigating the cause of the fire.
According to the AP report, such accidents are not rare in Iran. Such accidents and fatalities are frequent in the West Asian country, mainly due to neglect of safety measures, outdated infrastructure and inadequate emergency services.
Earlier in September of this year, two fires broke out in a car battery factory owned by Iran’s Ministry of Defense in less than a week. Although there were no casualties during those incidents.
