Five people died and more than 700 were injured in a powerful explosion that engulfed a commercial port in Iran’s southern Hormozgan Province on the Strait of Hormuz Saturday, Iranian state television reported.

A massive explosion and fire rocked a port Saturday in southern Iran purportedly linked to a shipment of a chemical ingredient used to make missile propellant, killing eight people and injuring around 750 others.

A massive explosion and fire rocked a port Saturday in southern Iran, purportedly linked to a shipment of a chemical ingredient used to make missile propellant, killing five people and injuring more than 700 others.