A fire at a crude oil distillation unit at a refinery in the central Iranian city of Isfahan on Saturday injured four people, the official IRNA news agency reported.

Two of the injured were firefighters, a senior official at Isfahan governorate said, adding that the fire had been extinguished, the semi-official Fars news agency reported.

What caused the fire?

The official said pipes at the entrance of unit 3 of the refinery caught fire. He did not say what caused the pipes to catch fire.

Smoke rises at an oil refinery in Birjand, Iran, December 10, 2023.
Smoke rises at an oil refinery in Birjand, Iran, December 10, 2023. (credit: Mohsen Noferesti/IRNA/WANA Handout via REUTERS)

The semi-official ISNA news site said the unit that caught fire had been under repair.