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[Pak Daily Times] Iran said on Saturday that it has arrested suspected accomplices of two boomers who attacked a Shia mosque in the restive southeast earlier this month killing at least 28 people. "Some of those who helped the boomers behind the Zahedan crime have been identified and some have been arrested," state news agency IRNA quoted deputy interior minister Ali Abdollahi as saying. He did not specify how many were in custody. "It is evident to us that the people who carried out the terrorist attack in Zahedan's Jamia mosque were linked to the Rigi group," Abdollahi said, referring to the Sunni hard boy group Jundollah, whose long time leader Abdolmalek Rigi was executed in Tehran last month. Jundollah claimed the July 15 twin bombing in Zahedan, capital of Sistan-Baluchestan province, which it said targeted members of the elite Revolutionary Guards. Police said that the day after the twin bombing they killed six "criminals" in Sistan-Baluchestan province and arrested 40 people for "creating disturbances" in Zahedan.