The governor of Iran's western province of Kermanshah, governor Fazlollah Ranjbar, contradicted reports from Iran's Mizan news agency, that attributed a fire outbreak of fuel tanks fires to an explosion.
"We did not have any explosions anywhere in the city today and the black smoke that citizens see in the sky of Kermanshah metropolis was related to the fire in this lorry park," Ranjbar said.
The blaze broke out during repair work to a heavy vehicle before spreading to seven others, governor Ranjbar said, quoted by the official IRNA news agency.
Iran's Mizan agency reported that an explosion set a fuel tank on fire. "An explosion in a fuel tank occurred in Dolat Abad industrial area parking area," Mizan said, but there were no reports of casualties.
Iran's Student News Agency ISNA said six fuel tanks were exploded that caused a major fire in the area. A video of the incident published by Mizan showed plumes of dense black smoke billowing into the air.
"Some 100 fire fighters are trying to contain the fire in the area. There were no casualties but some people were injured," the deputy head of Kermanshah's fire department, Keyvan Maleki, told ISNA, adding that authorities were investigating the cause of the explosion. Five people including four firefighters were injured, an emergency services spokesperson told AFP.
The incident is the latest in a string of explosions and fires at military and civilian sites across Iran in recent weeks.
Two blasts rocked Tehran in late June, one near a military site and the other in a health centre, the latter killing 19 people.
Fires or explosions also hit a shipyard in southern Iran this month and the Natanz nuclear complex in central Iran.
Iranian authorities said the Natanz fire was an accident, before adding they would not reveal the cause for "security reasons".
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