TEHRAN, Iran — Iranian state television is reporting that nine people have been killed overnight amid nationwide protests and unrest.
The report Tuesday puts the death toll in six days of demonstrations at at least 20 p🍌eople.
State TV says six rioters were killed during an attack on a police station in the town of Q🙈ahdarijan. It reported that clashes were sparked b😼y rioters who tried to steal guns from the police station.
State TV says an 11-year-old boy and a 20-year-old man were killed in the town of Khomeinishahr, while a member of Iran’s paramilitary Revolutionary Guard was killed in the town of Najafabad. It says all were shot with hunting rifles.
The towns are all in Iran’s central Isfahan province, some 215 miles south of Tehran.