Iran’s death toll rises in double suicide attack on 91

Iran this saturday the death toll rose to 91 in a double suicide attack near the tomb on wednesday Qasem Soleimani, dn Iranian general who led Quds Force of the Revolutionary Guard until death in 2020 in the bombing United States in Iraq.

“The death toll in the attack reached 91 after two people were hospitalized in serious condition, including a child, who died of injuries,” said Mohammad Saberi, a spokesman Emergency services of the province of Kerman, where the terrorist act took place, according to the official media.

Saberi added that 103 people injured in the attack are still receiving medical help, and that 34 of them are in serious condition.

Iranian authorities initially reported the death of 103 people in the attack, a figure that was later reduced to 95 and later to 89.

Yesterday, the country’s security forces announced the arrest of eleven people linked to the attack in the city of Kerman.

The authorities specified that one of the suicide bombers came Tajikistan, while the identity of the other has not yet been confirmed.

He Islamic State claimed responsibility on Thursday for the attack that took place near the tomb of an Iranian commander Qasem Soleimani Revolutionary Guardwho was killed by the United States four years ago in Baghdad.

Faced with one of the most brutal attacks in Iran in decades, the authorities of the Islamic Republic have assured that its “perpetrators” will be arrested by security and intelligence forces.

Those who support them “they will fear the wrath of the Iranian people,” They said.

Islamic State has claimed responsibility for several attacks on Iranian soil in the past, including an attack on a mausoleum in the southern city of Shiraz in October 2022 that killed 15 people.