― Reuters picDUBAI, July 15 — Tehran police shot dead a man who attacked a clergyman and other people with a knife at a metro station today, Iranian state television reported. Hadi Tamhidi, deputy governor of the Shar-e Rey district in south Tehran, said the unidentified man attacked the clergyman with a knife after a dispute, and injured another man. Police shot and wounded the assailant, who later died of his injuries, Tamhidi said, adding that the assailant was mentally “unbalanced”. A spokesman for the metro said traffic at the Shar-e Rey station had returned to normal after the incident.
An attack by a man armed with a knife in Tehran Metro's Shahr-e-Rey Station leaves two injured. The attacker is shot dead by the police.