{"id":253881,"date":"2026-08-18T06:41:09","date_gmt":"2026-08-18T06:41:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/253881\/"},"modified":"2026-08-18T06:41:09","modified_gmt":"2026-08-18T06:41:09","slug":"20-injured-in-massive-fire-at-major-fuel-storage-depot-in-northern-iraq","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/253881\/","title":{"rendered":"20 injured in massive fire at major fuel storage depot in northern Iraq"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Baghdad (IraqiNews.com) \u2013 A massive fire broke out late on Monday at a major fuel storage facility near Sulaymaniyah in northern Iraq\u2019s Kurdistan region, causing injuries to at least 20 people.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The explosion took place just before midnight on Monday, sending dense plumes of smoke and strong flames into the sky.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">According to local officials, no deaths have been reported. Approximately 20 people had minor injuries, with some individuals requiring highly specialized medical attention for burns.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The blaze, which was caused by a leak that swiftly ignited, burned more than three million liters of fuel. It also damaged 34 fuel tankers and four gas-oil tankers parked on the site.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The cause of the original leak and subsequent explosions is still under investigation.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Civil defense and emergency personnel fought the fires throughout the nighttime. Shaho Osman, Deputy Governor of Sulaymaniyah, stated that the fire had been successfully brought under control.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Despite the substantial physical damage to the facility, market officials and the warehouse owner do not believe the incident would affect local fuel supplies or cause a jump in gasoline prices.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Baghdad (IraqiNews.com) \u2013 A massive fire broke out late on Monday at a major fuel storage facility near&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":253882,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[14],"tags":[1985,3779,3593,70193,27316,8448,70194,6388,94,5542],"class_list":["post-253881","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-iraq","tag-explosion","tag-fire","tag-fuel","tag-fuel-storage-facility","tag-fuel-supplies","tag-fuel-tankers","tag-gas-oil-tankers","tag-gasoline","tag-iraq","tag-sulaymaniyah"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@iran\/117115150987111237","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253881","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=253881"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253881\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/253882"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=253881"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=253881"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=253881"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}