CHRONOLOGY-Major bomb attacks in Iran

Wed Feb 14, 2007 12:57pm GMT
 
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(Reuters) - A booby-trapped car blew up a bus owned by the Revolutionary Guards on Wednesday, killing at least 11 people in the border city of Zahedan in southeast Iran, state media reported.

Here is a chronology of some major bomb attacks in Iran:

June 20, 1994 - A bomb rips through the main hall at the Imam Reza shrine in the northeastern city of Mashhad, killing 26.

June 2, 1998 - An explosion kills three people at an Islamic revolutionary court in Tehran.

September 16, 1999 - A bomb hidden in a garbage can near a Shi'ite Muslim shrine in Mashhad kills two.

June 12, 2005 - A string of bomb attacks in Ahvaz, close to the border with Iraq, and in the capital Tehran kill nine people.

October 15 - Twin bomb blasts outside a shopping mall in Ahvaz kill six.

January 24, 2006 - Eight people are killed when bombs rip through a bank and government building in Ahvaz.

February 14, 2007 - A booby-trapped car blows up a bus owned by the Revolutionary Guards in Zahedan city in southeastern Iran, on the border with Pakistan and Afghanistan. Eleven staff members of the Guards are killed and 31 injured.

 

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