At least one person was killed and eight others injured on Sunday in a terrorist attack on the Shah Cheragh shrine in Iran’s southern Fars province, the official news agency IRNA reported.
In the evening, several staff and worshipers were caught under the gunfire of an armed assailant who attempted to break into the shrine at a main gate, IRNA reported, citing Deputy Governor of Fars Province Esmail Qezel Sofla.
He said the “terrorist” has been arrested and is under interrogation, adding that all the injured have been transferred to the hospital.
According to the Iranian Students’ News Agency, the person killed in the attack was one of the staff working at the shrine.
A similar attack in October last year on the same shrine killed 13 people and wounded dozens of others, in which 13 worshippers, including a woman and two children, were killed and 30 others injured.
The Islamic State group claimed responsibility for the attack, which Iran said had been carried out by a man from Tajikistan, who later died in a hospital after succumbing to injuries suffered while being detained by security forces.
