Instead, authorities dispatched dozens of security forces and anti-riot units, fearing public anger over the catastrophe. Firefighters were rushed to the site from across the province however, the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps ( IRGC) refused to allocate cargo planes to transfer necessary equipment from Tehran and other major cities. The Khuzestan governor ordered health officials that the death toll should remain secret and only the number of injured citizens be made public.įurthermore, the authorities failed to provide machinery for rescue teams 12 hours after the collapse. “Just declare the number of injured citizens,” he said. In the meantime, provincial governor Sadegh Khalilian ordered the Red Crescent head, Abadan Medical Sciences University dean Mohammad Esmail Motlaq, and Abadan governor Ehsan Abbaspour to keep the death toll secret. “An evacuation order has been issued for the suburban areas.” Notably, most of the buildings in this district are commercial, medical, and administrative. “Based on primary estimations, the adjunct buildings to the collapsed tower are not in stable conditions,” said Vahid Sha’bani, the Red Crescent head in Khuzestan, to the Mehr news agency. “The destruction was as substantial as those shocked residential buildings in the vicinity of the Metropole,” locals said.
The tower collapse also damaged dozens of people’s vehicles parked in the street and raised a cloud of dense dust that engulfed almost the entire street. It had been stopped due to technical reasons,” the semiofficial ILNA news agency reported.
“The construction of the Metropole twin towers as the largest and most complete medical, administrative, recreational, commercial, and multi-story parking was in the final stages.
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