Iranian officials arrested four additional suspects following the arrest of a lone gunman responsible for a fatal shooting at the Shah Cheragh mausoleum in Shiraz. The attack, which claimed at least one life and wounded eight others.
Iranian authorities have arrested four more suspects after detaining a lone gunman for killing at least one person at a Shiite Muslim shrine, state media reported on Monday.
The attack came less than a year after a similar one on the same holy site, the Shah Cheragh mausoleum in Shiraz, the capital of Fars province in Iran’s south.
The official IRNA news agency quoted Fars provincial chief justice Kazem Mousavi as saying, “Four suspects have so far been arrested for links to the attack.”
The four are in addition to the gunman whose arrest was announced on Sunday night by Fars commander of the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps, Yadollah Bouali, who spoke on state TV.
In addition to the one fatality, eight people were wounded, IRNA reported.
There was no immediate claim of responsibility, but Fars provincial governor Mohammad Hadi Imanieh blamed the extremist Islamic State group.
He told state TV that the assailant sought “to take revenge for the execution of two terrorists” convicted of carrying out a similar attack last year.
The Shah Cheragh mausoleum is home to the tomb of Ahmad, brother of Imam Reza, the eighth Shiite imam, and is considered the holiest site in southern Iran.
Miroslava Salazar, with AFP
