Two blasts at Iranian mosques kill 39 people

TWO suicide bomb attacks outside a mosque killed 39 people and wounded more than 100 during a Shi’ite religious ceremony in the south-eastern Iranian city of Chabahar yesterday, local media reported.

Dubai-based Al Arabiya satellite television channel reported that Jundollah, a Sunni Muslim rebel group, claimed responsibility for the bombings outside the Imam Hussein Mosque in Chahbahar, near Iran’s border with Pakistan and Afghanistan.

The report could not be confirmed independently, but the poor province of Sistan-Baluchistan has been the scene of unrest with the mainly Sunni population claiming discrimination by the Shi’ite authorities.