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This is an archive article published on October 16, 2005

4 die in Iran bomb attack

Two bombs set off minutes apart killed four people and wounded dozens of others in the southwestern Iranian city of Ahvaz, local officials s...

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Two bombs set off minutes apart killed four people and wounded dozens of others in the southwestern Iranian city of Ahvaz, local officials said on Saturday. There was no immediate claim of responsibility for the bombings, which were the latest in a string of attacks and violence this year in Khuzestan province, the heartland of Iran’s oil industry.

Officials said the blasts, five minutes apart, occurred close to a shopping centre.Ahvaz Governor Mohammad Jafar Sarami said that several of the wounded were in critical condition. He also called the incident a terrorist act.

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