{"id":720739,"date":"2026-06-23T07:34:10","date_gmt":"2026-06-23T07:34:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/720739\/"},"modified":"2026-06-23T07:34:10","modified_gmt":"2026-06-23T07:34:10","slug":"live-updates-iran-war-strait-of-hormuz-traffic-increasing-israel-lebanon-talks-to-begin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/720739\/","title":{"rendered":"Live updates: Iran war, Strait of Hormuz traffic increasing, Israel-Lebanon talks to begin"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\n At least 13 people, including a dozen Indian nationals, were killed in an explosion at a massive Qatar gas complex Sunday, authorities said, adding it was the result of an industrial accident and not conflict-related.\n <\/p>\n

\n The explosion at the Ras Laffan liquified natural gas (LNG) hub was caused \u201cdue to a technical malfunction during operations,\u201d Qatar\u2019s Ministry of Interior said in a statement on X on Monday. It added that 13 people had died, while 66 more were injured.\n <\/p>\n

\n The Indian embassy in Doha said a dozen Indian nationals were killed in the explosion and that it was working to repatriate their bodies.\n <\/p>\n

\n Qatari authorities have launched an investigation into the incident.\n <\/p>\n

\n The Ras Laffan LNG hub is the world\u2019s largest such facility. It was struck by Iranian missiles during the US-Israeli war with Iran, suffering \u201cextensive damage.\u201d<\/a>\n <\/p>\n

\n QatarEnergy is working to restart operations at the facility, which had been halted following the at\ufefftack, according to Reuters.\n <\/p>\n

\n Some background: There are about 9 million Indian nationals residing and working in the Gulf, according to India\u2019s foreign ministry. Many of these migrants work as laborers powering major sectors including construction, hospitality and domestic work, yet they remain among its most exposed and unprotected demographic.\n <\/p>\n

\n A large number of the people killed in Gulf countries since the start of the war have been South Asian nationals.\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"At least 13 people, including a dozen Indian nationals, were killed in an explosion at a massive Qatar…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":720740,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[23,29430,3,21,19,22,20,25,24],"class_list":["post-720739","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-states","tag-america","tag-hnk","tag-news","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-unitedstates","tag-unitedstatesofamerica","tag-us","tag-usa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/720739","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=720739"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/720739\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/720740"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=720739"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=720739"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=720739"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}