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Empresas y finanzas

Iran TV station: mosque blast was not an attack


    TEHRAN (Reuters) - A blast in a mosque in southern Iran that killed at least 10 people on Saturday was not an attack and was probably caused by negligence, a police official was quoted as saying on Sunday by a state television station.

    "The blast may have been caused by explosives left behindfrom an earlier exhibition commemorating the (1980-88)Iran-Iraq war," said the English-language Press TV.

    Iranian media said at least 10 people were killed in theblast in the southern city of Shiraz and more than 160 werewounded.

    (Writing by Fredrik Dahl)