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)
