Zarif extends condolences on Plasco building tragic incident

EghtesadOnline: Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif in a message on Friday to the bereaved families of the tragic incident of the collapse of Plasco building in Central Tehran extended his condolences on the sad occasion.

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21 January 2017

'The sad fire and collapse incident of Tehran's Plasco building and martyrdom of a number of firefighters was a big sorrow for all of us,' Zarif said.

Iranian government on Friday announced one day of public mourning due to a fire tragedy in Tehran's Plasco Trade Center, which claimed the lives of several people, including firefighters, IRNA reported.

Saturday (January 21) will be the day of public mourning, cabinet said in a statement released on Friday.

Praising the sacrifices of firefighters in protection of people's life, the government offered condolences to the bereaved families of firefighters and wished recovery for the injured.

Head of Iran's Emergency Medical Services, Pir-Hossein Kolivand, said on Thursday that following the collapse of the Plasco Trade Center many firefighters are feared dead.

The fire in Plasco Trade Center, which is one of the biggest in the Iranian capital, collapsed Thursday morning as the fire started in the seventeen-storey business building in the early hours of Thursday, despite efforts by Tehran firefighters to stop it.

A center for making apparel, the Plasco center soon was engulfed in a big fire that caused the collapse of a wall in the building's northern side and its final total collapse.