IRNA - Iran’s Minister of Cooperative, Labor and Social Welfare Ali Rabiei expressed condolences over the death of 32 Iranian sailors in China sea.

'Due to the explosion magnitude and also the size of fire, all crew members were killed at early hours of the accident,” Rabiei said on Sunday.

He sympathized with the bereaved families of the victims of the deadly accident.

An Iranian tanker was carrying condensates and collided with a Chinese freight ship in East China coast on Saturday night (Jan 6), and the 32 members of the crew members were killed.