TEHRAN, Oct  26, 2022 (BSS/AFP) - At least 13 people were killed Wednesday

by armed "terrorists" who attacked a Shiite Muslim shrine in the southern
Iranian city of Shiraz, state television said.

 Forty others were wounded when "terrorists attacked the Shah Cheragh
mausoleum in Shiraz", the state broadcaster said, updating an earlier toll from
the judiciary's news website of nine dead.

  At least one woman and two children were among those killed, Fars news
agency said.

  Local media initially reported three assailants carried out the attack and
two had been detained, but a local official instead said there was only one
attacker.

 "Only one terrorist was involved in this attack," local judiciary chief
Kazem Mousavi told state television, which reported that "a terrorist
affiliated with takfiri groups was arrested".

 The term takfiri in Iran and in several other countries refers to radical
Sunni Islamist groups.

 Fars reported that "the terrorists arrested are not Iranian".
 The Shah Cheragh mausoleum is home to the tomb of Ahmad, brother of Imam
Reza, the eighth Shiite imam, and is considered the holiest site in southern
Iran.