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Suicide bomber kills 2 in southeast Iran: revised toll
[PULSE.NG] A jacket wallah killed at least two people and maimed many more outside police headquarters in the port city of Chabahar in restive southeastern Iran on Thursday, according to a revised official toll.Chabahar lies in Sistan-Balochistan ...the Pak province bordering Kandahar and Uruzgun provinces in Afghanistan and Sistan Baluchistan in Iran. Its native Baloch propulation is being displaced by Pashtuns and Punjabis and they aren't happy about it... province which has long been a flashpoint, with Pakistain-based Baluchi separatists and Sunni Moslem turbans carrying out cross-border attacks targeting the Shiite authorities. "This terrorist act led to the martyrdom of two members of the police force," the province's deputy governor in charge of security, Mohammad Hadi Marashi, told state television ... and if you can't believe state television who can you believe? . Chabahar city governor Rahmdel Bameri said earlier that four people were killed and many more maimed when the bomber blew up a car, but later revised the corpse count to two. "The kaboom was very strong and broke the glass of many buildings close by," Bameri told state television ... and if you can't believe state television who can you believe? . Many nearby shop owners and civilian passers-by, including women and kiddies, were severely maimed, he added. Map of Iran locating kaboom in Chabahar. play Map of Iran locating kaboom in Chabahar. (AFP) Chabahar lies some 100 kilometres (60 miles) west of the Pakistain border and is home to a large, mainly Sunni Moslem ethnic Baluchi community which straddles the two countries. The number of assailants was not immediately clear. "The forces of Evil tried to enter Chabahar police headquarters but they were prevented by the guards and they detonated the boom-mobile," Marashi said without elaborating on how many assailants took part. Chabahar has a deep-water port on the Gulf of Oman and with Indian assistance Iran has been developing it as a major energy and freight hub between Central Asia and India, bypassing Pakistain. Posted by: Fred 2018-12-07 |
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