Two Iran Supreme Court judges killed in Tehran shooting attack
2 months, 1 week ago

Two Iran Supreme Court judges killed in Tehran shooting attack

Al Jazeera  

Assailant kills himself after shooting dead senior justices inside a Supreme Court building in the capital Tehran. Two senior Iranian justices have been killed in a shooting attack in the Supreme Court in the capital Tehran, according to the judiciary and state media. Judiciary spokesman Asghar Jahangir told Iranian state television that “a person armed with a handgun entered the room” of the two judges and shot them. “Preliminary investigations indicate that the perpetrator had no prior cases in the Supreme Court nor was he one of its visitors,” the statement by the media centre of the judiciary said. Iranian judiciary chief Gholam-Hossein Mohseni Ejei said in a statement that the judges were killed due to their “decisive” sentences against “terrorists whose hands were soaked with the pure blood of the Iranian people”.

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The Hindu  

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Associated Press  

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China Daily  

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