Commemoration service held in Vienna for Iranian firefighters

Staff of Iran's embassy in Vienna, Iran's representatives at the United Nations offices in Vienna, members of student associations, groups of Iranian-Armenians residing in Vienna, intellectuals, secretaries of Iranian medical society in Austria, secretaries of Iranian engineers society in Vienna and a group of artists residing in Austria participated in the event.

Austrian Fire Department in a message, sympathized with victims of the sad incident.

The number of people wounded at the Plasco Trade Center collapse on Thursday inferno has risen to 197 and 7 people were also killed.

Plasco Trade Center, the 17-storey building collapsed in downtown Tehran on January 19 while a number of firefighters were inside the building to rescue those trapped in the huge fire.

Plasco was the first high-rise building in the Iranian capital built in 1962.

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