A suicide bomber killed a neighborhood police officer and wounded one other in a southern Iranian port metropolis, residence to a big Sunni Muslim neighborhood, native media stated Sunday.
The hard-line Javan Every day, a newspaper near the nation’s highly effective Revolutionary Guard, stated the attacker stopped Capt.
Mojtaba Shahid’s automobile Saturday night in Bandar Lengeh within the province of Hormozgan earlier than detonating his vest.
Shahid’s deputy, who was additionally within the automobile, has been hospitalized in crucial situation, the paper reported, describing the assault as an act of terrorism.
The town, some 1,000 kilometers (620 miles) south of the capital Tehran, has no latest historical past of militancy.
Nobody instantly claimed duty for the assault, however some native information retailers claimed Ansar al-Furqan, an Al-Qaeda-linked Sunni militant group, was behind it.
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