At least 13 people were killed on Wednesday by armed "terrorists" who attacked a Shia Muslim shrine in the southern Iranian city of Shiraz, state television said.
At least one woman and two children were among the dead. At least 13 people were killed on Wednesday by armed "terrorists" who attacked a Shia Muslim shrine in the southern Iranian city of Shiraz, state television said.
Forty others were injured when "terrorists attacked Shah Cheragh's mausoleum in Shiraz," state broadcaster said, updating an earlier figure of nine dead from the Justice News website.
At least one woman and two children were among the dead, the Fars news agency said. Local media initially reported that three attackers carried out the attack and two were arrested, but a local official said there was only one attacker.
A terrorist was involved in this attack," local judiciary chief Kazem Mousavi told state television, which reported that "a terrorist linked to Takfiri groups was arrested." The term Takfiri in Iran and several other countries refers to radical Sunni Islamist groups. Fars reported that "the arrested terrorists are not Iranians."
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