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Iran Focus
 Tehran, Iran, Jan. 24 – At
least eight people were killed and dozens injured in a blast that rocked
the south-western city of Ahwaz Tuesday
morning, state media reported.
The blast occurred minutes after 10 am inside one of Ahwaz’s banks. The
ceiling of Saman Bank collapsed and parts of it
were set ablaze, the bank’s manager told state-run news agencies.
The head of the Medical Faculty of the city’s university told announced
that at until now there had been at least eight confirmed fatalities and 46
injuries.
The state-run news agency ISNA quoted the city’s governor, Mohammad Jafar Samari, as saying that
six people had died in the blast.
A second blast caused by a sonic-boom at the Natural Resources
Organisation.
The Iranian government previously blamed ethnic Arabs in the province for a
spate of bombings in Ahwaz that rocked
the city in the aftermath of extensive clashes between security forces and
anti-government protesters.
Al-Manar television, run by Lebanese Hezbollah,
reported that the attacks were targeting Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. The
report said that after learning of possible attacks, Ahmadinejad
cancelled his trip.
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