{"id":12248,"date":"2026-06-22T19:14:00","date_gmt":"2026-06-22T16:14:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/?p=12248"},"modified":"2026-06-22T19:14:00","modified_gmt":"2026-06-22T16:14:00","slug":"qatar-at-least-13-dead-and-dozens-injured-in-an-explosion-at-a-natural-gas-facility-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/?p=12248","title":{"rendered":"Qatar: At least 13 dead and dozens injured in an explosion at a natural gas facility (video)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>     At least 13 people <b>lost their lives<\/b> following <b>an explosion <\/b>at the largest <b>natural gas<\/b> facility in <b>Qatar<\/b>. <\/p>\n<p>     According to the Ministry of the Interior, the main liquefied natural gas (LNG) processing plant in the Ras Laffan industrial zone suffered a \u201ctechnical accident\u201d on Sunday night. The explosion was so powerful that the sky above the city lit up orange. <\/p>\n<figure>\n<div class=\"embed-responsive\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">QatarEnergy reports an explosion at the Barzan local gas supply facility in the LNG complex of Ras Laffan, which processes the gas extracted from the North Dome.<\/p>\n<p>Impact #geoposted at 25.903675,51.581105pic.twitter.com\/A28D20PkIc<\/p>\n<p>S: https:\/\/t.co\/llv8osTiru pic.twitter.com\/VEKBEKcvdi<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 OSGINT (@posted_news) June 21, 2026<\/p><\/blockquote><\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p>     Qatar\u2019s Minister of Energy, Saad Sherida al-Kaabi, stated that the incident will not affect the country\u2019s exports, emphasizing that \u201cthis was an accident and not an act of sabotage or a hostile act.\u201d <\/p>\n<figure>\n<div class=\"embed-responsive\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">#Qatar\u2019s Minister of State for Energy Affairs and @QatarEnergy CEO Saad Sherida Al-Kaabi confirmed during a press briefing on Monday that 13 people were killed and 66 injured in the explosion and subsequent fire at the Barzan local gas supply facility in #RasLaffan Industrial\u2026 pic.twitter.com\/9bNq2ziZHM<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Doha News (@dohanews) June 22, 2026<\/p><\/blockquote><\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p>     Ras Laffan is home to the world\u2019s largest man-made harbor and the world\u2019s largest LNG export facility. Earlier this year, it had been targeted by Iranian attacks. <\/p>\n<p>     The explosion caused strong tremors that made windows rattle, and was even felt in downtown Doha, causing panic among residents more than 70 kilometers away from the site. <\/p>\n<p>     Al-Kaabi stated that authorities are investigating the causes of the explosion, which occurred at the Barzan natural gas facility, adding that there is no risk to the environment. <\/p>\n<p>     He also noted that it is still difficult to estimate when the facility will be able to resume full operations. <\/p>\n<p>     \u201cProduction at the plant had been completely suspended since December 2025 due to emergency maintenance work and resumed just two days ago,\u201d the minister said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\n    At least 13 people were killed in an explosion at Qatar&#8217;s largest natural gas facility.<\/p>\n<p> The main unit &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":12249,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12248","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12248","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12248"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12248\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/12249"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12248"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12248"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12248"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}