NEW DELHI: A 30-year-old man gunned down 12 of his relatives, in a remote rural village in southeast Iran, in a rare incident of mass shooting, as per official media reports on Saturday.
The man, who remains unidentified, used a Kalashnikov assault rifle and was later shot and killed by security forces in the south-central province of Kerman.
Head of the justice department of the province of Kerman, Ebrahim Hamidi told the semiofficial ISNA news agency that the gunman opened fire on his father, brother and other relatives because of family disputes.
Although no further details have been provided.
Mass killings are uncommon in Iran, where hunting rifles are the only weapons people are allowed to possess.
In a similar incident two years ago, a former employee of a state institution opened fire at his former workplace in the country’s west, resulting in the deaths of three individuals and injuries to five others before he took his own life.
(With input from Agencies)
The man, who remains unidentified, used a Kalashnikov assault rifle and was later shot and killed by security forces in the south-central province of Kerman.
Head of the justice department of the province of Kerman, Ebrahim Hamidi told the semiofficial ISNA news agency that the gunman opened fire on his father, brother and other relatives because of family disputes.
Although no further details have been provided.
Mass killings are uncommon in Iran, where hunting rifles are the only weapons people are allowed to possess.
In a similar incident two years ago, a former employee of a state institution opened fire at his former workplace in the country’s west, resulting in the deaths of three individuals and injuries to five others before he took his own life.
(With input from Agencies)