A gunman opened fire on Sunday night at a prominent shrine in southern Iran, wounding at least four people, authorities have said.
Information on the attack at Shah Cheragh remained unclear immediately after the shooting, with state media and semi-official news agencies offering differing details.
The state-run IRNA news agency said four people had been wounded, including two workers at the shrine and two pilgrims.
The governor of Fars province, of which Shiraz is the capital, told Iranian state television that the attack was carried out by a single gunman, who was later detained by security forces. Mohammad Hadi Imanieh did not mention any motive for the attack in his brief comments.
Shah Cheragh is one of Iran’s top five Shia shrines. It draws pilgrims to Shiraz, about 420 miles (675km) south of Iran’s capital, Tehran.
An attack on the same shrine in October 2022 killed 13 people and wounded dozens of others. The Islamic State group claimed responsibility for that assault, which Iran said had been carried out by a man from Tajikistan, who later died in a hospital after succumbing to injuries that he suffered while being detained by security forces.
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