According to state television, a shooting at a Shiite Muslim shrine in Iran's south on Sunday killed at least four people. This happened less than a year after a similar attack at the exact location.
"Four people have been killed so far as a result of a terrorist attack by two armed men on the holy shrine of Shah Cheragh" in Shiraz, Fars province's capital, according to the official news agency IRNA.
According to the Tasnim news agency, one accused assailant was apprehended, while the other fled. The attack took at about 7:00 p.m. local time, according to Fars Province Governor Mohamed Hadi Imanieh.
Ambulances rushed to the scene of the attack, according to footage broadcast on official television. Iranian media outlets have reported The number of casualties in various ways.
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The attackers made no quick claim of responsibility. The grave of Ahmad, brother of Imam Reza, the eighth Shiite imam, is housed in the Shah Cheragh mausoleum, which is regarded as the holiest shrine in southern Iran.
A mass shooting at the famous shrine on October 26 killed 13 people and injured 30 in an attack later claimed by Islamic State (IS) group extremists.
Iran executed two individuals in public for the October attack, according to the judiciary's Mizan Online news website, naming them Mohammad Ramez Rashidi and Naeem Hashem Qatali but not revealing their nationalities.
Authorities stated that people from other countries, including neighbouring Afghanistan, were involved in the incident. Takfiri refers to terrorists or supporters of extremist Sunni Islam in Shiite-majority Iran.
Last year's attack came while Iran was rocked by widespread protests following the death in detention of 22-year-old Mahsa Amini, who had been arrested for allegedly violating strict women's clothing codes.
