The reason is still unclear, but the toll will likely increase. This Sunday, a young soldier killed five other soldiers before fleeing a base in southern Iran, Iran's official Irna agency said. “This (Sunday) evening, one of our conscripts, who was guarding a unit in an army position, entered the soldiers' toilet and shot his comrades,” the agency quoted a military official as saying.
“Five soldiers were killed,” added the same source, who said the motive was “still unclear.” The shooter, who “immediately fled the barracks,” is still being sought.
In the same province as the recent attack
The incident, rare in Iran, occurred in Kerman province, where at least 89 people were killed on January 3 in a double suicide attack by the Islamic State jihadist group during a memorial ceremony near the grave of General Qassem Soleimani.
The former head of the Quds Force, the department responsible for external operations of the Revolutionary Guards, the Tehran regime's ideological army, was killed by an American strike in Iraq in January 2020. A key figure in the Islamic Republic, he was celebrated in his country for his role in defeating ISIS in Iraq and Syria.