Gas leak kills 2, injures 5 in refinery near Iran-Turkmenistan border

Iran’s official IRNA news agency said on Thursday that natural gas had accumulated behind a valve that was under repair at Shahid Hasheminejad Refinery near the northeastern city of Sarakhs before it leaked and killed two people, Report informs.

Sarakhs is located in a gas-rich region near Iran’s border with Turkmenistan and some 170 kilometers to the east of Mashhad, the capital of Iran’s Khorasan Razavi province and the country’s second largest city.

The two killed in the incident were staff workers of the refinery who had inhaled gas after it leaked, said the top provincial security official Mohammad Zohdi who added that the five injured in the incident were transferred to a hospital in Sarakhs and are now in a stable condition.