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9:37pm (UK)
Four Die in Riot after Police Kill Motorcyclist
Four people were killed in southeastern Iran when police put down a riot sparked by their shooting dead a motorcyclist who defied orders to stop, a local MP said today.
The motorcyclist ignored police instructions in the city of Saravan, Sistan-Baluchistan province, on Thursday, said MP Jafar Kambouzia.
Police shot the motorcyclist dead “provoking outrage among witnesses,” Kambouzia said in a phone call from his home.
A number of people marched to the provincial governor’s office and smashed the windows of a police car on the way.
“There were scuffles with police, as a result of which four people were killed,” said Kambouzia, who declined to be more specific about how they died.
Kambouzia, a reformist politician, said everything seemed normal in Saravan today, the Islamic holy day in Iran.
“Provincial government officials met to investigate the incident,” he said.
The deaths were not reported on Iranian state television, nor on radio, nor by the official Islamic Republic News Agency.
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