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One person killed in armed attack on Azerbaijan's embassy in Tehran

TEHRAN, Jan 27 (KUNA) - At least one person was killed and two others were wounded in an armed attack on Azerbaijan's embassy in Iran's capital Tehran, said Iranian authorities Friday.
Iranian official news agency quoted the chief of Tehran police as saying that the security forces arrested the person who infiltrated the embassy building and opened fire, killing one person and wounding two.
The chief of police added that the attacker was accompanied by his two young children when he attacked the embassy, and that he admitted in the preliminary investigations that he carried out the attack with "personal motives." (end) mw.aa