UPDATE 1-Two blasts heard near police station in southeast Iran -Mehr
The Young Journalist Club, a news website linked to state broadcaster IRIB, said two suicide bombers had blown themselves up in front of a police station. But Mehr news agency quoted an "informed source" as saying that one of the explosions was caused by a percussion grenade. Four people were wounded, according to Mehr and the Young Journalist Club.
Zahedan is the capital of Sistan-Baluchestan province, where Iranian security forces often clash with armed drugs smugglers and Sunni militants. The province is home to mostly Sunni ethnic Baluchis, a minority in predominantly Shi’ite Iran. A video of the aftermath of the attack was soon removed from the Young Journalist Club's website. The video, shared on other social media, showed a car with a broken windshield and people around it. (Reporting by Bozorgmehr Sharafedin Editing by Robin Pomeroy)
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