DUBAI: A suicide bomber killed two guards as he blew himself up outside a mosque in a restive southern province of Iran yesterday after being prevented from reaching worshippers inside, Iranian media reported.
The bomber set off his explosive belt a few hundred meters outside the Imam Hossein mosque in the city of Chabahar, killing two members of the Basij militia that were on guard, Fars reported.
“Eyewitnesses said the attacker was trying to get inside the mosque but he was identified by members of the Basij,” Fars reported. Six others, including three children, sustained injuries in the explosion, it said.
Chabahar is in Sistan-Baluchistan province, near the Pakistani border. It has a history of unrest, with the mainly Sunni population complaining of discrimination at the hands of Iran’s Shiite authorities.
Bomber kills 2 at Iran mosque
