Bike-riding gunmen kill 9 in mysterious Iran attacks

Gunmen on motorcycles in Iran killed nine people, including two children, in mysterious attacks as protests over Mahsa Amini’s death intensified on the anniversary of a bloody 2019 crackdown.

A protester was killed in Bukan on Thursday, the Oslobased Hengaw rights group said, after reporting at least 10 slain in running street battles in western Iran on Wednesday.

Assailants on motorbikes shot dead seven people, including a woman and two children, in the western city of Izeh on Wednesday evening, state media said.

In a separate attack hours later in Iran’s third city Isfahan, two assailants on a motorcycle fired automatic weapons at Basij members, killing two of them and wounding two others, Fars news agency said. —afp