SULAIMANI (ESTA) — The state media Wednesday said at least five people were killed in Iran’s southwestern province of Khuzestan, describing it as a terrorist attack.
Iran’s state TV said 15 others were wounded in the attack at the market in the city of Izeh. The semi-official ISNA news agency said two gunmen in a car opened fire on people.
Iran’s ethnic Arab minority, who mostly live in Khuzestan, have joined weeks of protests triggered by the death in custody of young Iranian woman Mahsa Amini on Sept. 16.
“Five people were killed in the terrorist attack, including one child, one woman and three men,” local official Valiollah Hayati told state TV.
The protests ignited by the death of 22-year-old Amini while in the custody of Iran’s morality police have turned into one of the boldest challenges to the clerical leadership since the 1979 revolution.
