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Iran bomb explodes by earlier blast site
By ASSOCIATED PRESS
Published February 17, 2007
TEHRAN, Iran - Police and insurgents clashed after a bombing in southeastern Iran late Friday near the site where an explosion killed 11 members of the elite Revolutionary Guards this week, Iranian news agencies reported. The semiofficial Fars news agency said clashes broke out between Iranian police and armed insurgents after the explosion. Fars quoted the governor of Zahedan, Hasan Ali Nouri, as saying the blast was a "sound bomb explosion"- a device that creates a loud boom but usually does not cause casualties. Nouri said that gunfire was heard but that it was late at night and police had blocked off the area. On Wednesday, a car bomb blew up a bus carrying Revolutionary Guards, killing 11, in Zahedan, capital of Sistan-Baluchestan province, which sits on the border with Pakistan. A Sunni Muslim militant group called Jundallah, or God's Brigade, which has been blamed for past attacks on Iranian troops, has claimed responsibility for the Wednesday bombing. Iran has accused the United States of backing militants to destabilize the country. Tensions between Tehran and Washington are growing over allegations of Iranian involvement in attacks on U.S. troops in Iraq, and over Iran's nuclear activities. Fars said the explosion Friday was at a school in Zahedan. "The insurgents began shooting at people after the explosion," the Fars agency said. Most Iranians are Shiite Muslims, but minority Sunnis live in southeastern Iran.
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