Foreign officials extend condolences to families of Plasco victims

Officials from the Brazilian foreign ministry as well as the commander of firefighting brigade stationed in Brasília signed the memorial book opened at Iran’s embassy in the federal capital of Brazil to extend their condolences.

Foreign Ambassadors in Guyana, Iraq, Surinam, Ivory Coast, Myanmar, Burundi, Armenia, East Timor, and also foreign charge d'Affaires in Ukraine, Angola, Oman, Togo, Germany, Switzerland, Georgia, Tunisia, Lebanon, Thailand, Venezuela, France and Portugal attended the Iranian embassies in the respective nations and signed the memorial book.

Representatives from the European Union delegation in Brazil also were among foreign officials who signed the book.

In a related news, a group political, cultural and economic officials and figures along with Romanian academics attended Iran’s embassy in Bucharest to extend condolences to the bereaved families of the victims as well as the Iranian people.

Foreign diplomats and ambassadors residing in Australia signed the memorial book opened at the Iranian embassy to voice condolence over the death of the Iranian firefighters killed during the fire and collapse of the Plasco Building in central Tehran.

A number of ambassadors and foreign diplomats residing in Finland also attended Iran’s embassy in Helsinki and signed the memorial book to express sympathy with the Iranian people.

Plasco Trade Center, collapsed following a fire that was started in the building in the early hours of January 19 and the firefighters who were trying to control the flames were buried under the rubbles.

Plasco was the first high rise building in the Iranian capital and the symbol of Tehran's modernization in 1960s.

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