LONDON: At least one person was killed in Iran's southern city of Kazeroon when protesters set fire to a police station, the semi-official Fars news agency reported on Thursday.
Fars said the protest on Wednesday night had left at least one dead and at least six others wounded. Kazeroon has witnessed protests in recent months against a decision to split the province administratively. Videos of the protests were widely circulated Wednesday on social media.
Tehran government officials announced recently that they have withdrawn projects to redraw the administrative map of some regions acoording to Fars news agency. Calm had returned to Kazeroom for 2 weeks according to the Iranian semi official news agency until the Wednesday incidents. The protests in Kazeroom are the last in a string of protests that hit Iran mainly complaining about the high cost of living in the country.
