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| Details on Mashhad explosion announced |
| 2010-01-18 |
| A day after an improvised explosive device (IED) was detonated in Iran's northeastern Khorasan Razavi Province, a provincial official offers more details on the incident. "Last night's explosion was planned by three boys of about 18 years of age that had adventurous attitudes," said Amirollah Shamaqdari, an official of the province's office of the governor general, quoted by the Mehr News Agency on Sunday. An IED was detonated near the governor general's office in downtown holy city of Mashhad Saturday night, leaving one person, the bomber, dead. The youth in possession of the IED apparently detonated his explosives after security forces detected something suspicious about the individual and began their approach towards him. The attacker was critically injured in the explosion and was taken to a hospital, where he died hours later. Shamaqdari said the bomber has been identified and added, "The three youths had neither political inclination nor an intention to carry out an operation." He said that they chose the site of the blast "at random". No other injuries or damages where reported in the blast. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #3 darn it. premature detonation of submit button... Dodgeball, not volleyball. scusi. |
| Posted by: Swanimote 2010-01-18 11:03 |
| #2 "The three youths had neither political inclination nor an intention to carry out an operation." Boys will be boys. Seems they were too stupid to hold a political intention or even merit an official splody "operation". Must have simply been playing the newest islamist game of that old volleyball derivative "Bombardment" Instead of five balls tho', each player uses his own two balls. |
| Posted by: Swanimote 2010-01-18 11:01 |
| #1 Just some hijinks by some fun-loving kids, probably trying to impress each other or some girls, but had too much beer, and things didn't go right. |
| Posted by: Glenmore 2010-01-18 08:39 |