SHIRAZ: As security forces engaged demonstrators to mark 40 days since Mahsa Amini’s death in detention, armed men assaulted a Shia shrine in Shiraz, killing at least 15, according to the state news agency.
The attackers, who were in a car, opened fire on tourists and employees at the Shah Cheragh shrine’s gate, according to witnesses, who were quoted by the news agency. Police detained two of the three “terrorists” and searched for the third.
According to a witness, the attack occurred on the same day that Iranian security forces fired on mourners gathered in Saqez, Amini’s hometown in the Kurdish region of Iran.
The witness claimed that “riot police shot mourners who had assembled at the cemetery for Mahsa’s mourning service…dozens had been arrested.” The Iranian government was unable for comment.
