MOSCOW, Jan 7 One person killed, two others injured while shooting at the Gechsaran oil and gas company in Iran, the governor of the region in the province of Kohgiluy and Boyerahmed Ravanbakhsh Deykhim said.
«As a result of the shooting … in the Gechsaran oil and gas company, one person was killed and two were injured,» ISNA quoted Deykhim as saying.
The governor specified that the shooter was alone, he was detained, and the causes of the incident are being investigated.
Iranian media add that the shooter was an office worker of this company. According to them, the shooting was caused by disagreements with colleagues at work.
Gechsaran oil and gas production company, subordinated to the National Iranian Southern Oil Company (NISOC, a subsidiary of the National Iranian Oil Company), is engaged in the extraction, processing and transportation of oil, natural gas and gas condensates. It produces oil at 18 fields, owns a wide network of pipelines with a length of 6247 kilometers for the transportation of oil and natural gas, three desalination plants, 11 gas compressor stations and five gas processing plants, including liquefied gas.