Tehran
Protesters attacked a coast guard station in southern Iran after a patrol from the force shot and killed a fuel smuggler, the semi-official Fars news agency reported Saturday.
The report said the attack happened Friday when coast guard patrols shot at vessels smuggling fuel to neighbouring countries, killing at least one smuggler.
Fars didn’t identify the person killed but said he was a 31-year-old man aboard one of the vessels allegedly smuggling fuel.
Gen. Hossein Dehaki, chief of the coast guard in southern Hormozgan province, was quoted in the Fars report as saying an undetermined number of people later attacked the coast guard station in the Kouhestak district.
He said several coast guard members were inured and the crowd damaged cars, vessels and equipment.
Dehaki said calm was restored to the district, located some 1,120 km (694 miles) south of the capital Tehran, by late Friday afternoon.—AP
