UPDATE - Attacks at Iranian parliament, Khomeini shrine

UPDATE - Attacks at Iranian parliament, Khomeini shrine

Local media say apparently coordinated gun, bomb attacks in Tehran

UPDATES WITH DEATH TOLL, HOSTAGES TAKEN

By Mohamed Sabry Emam Muhammed and Mustafa Melih Ahiskali

TEHRAN, Iran (AA) - Gunmen opened fire at Iran’s parliament and the shrine of Ayatollah Khomeini in the capital Tehran on Wednesday, killing at least six people, local media reported.

Four men attacked parliament, the IRNA news agency reported, citing lawmaker Qolam-Ali Jafarzadeh Imenabadi.

Three guards were wounded when the men, armed with Kalashnikov assault rifles and a handgun, opened fire. Imenabadi told the agency one of the guards was said to have been killed.

The Fars News Agency said five people were killed and at least 10 wounded in the attack on parliament.

The attackers took four people hostage on the top floors of the parliament building, Tasnim news agency reported. The agency, which put the death toll from the parliament attack at seven, published an image of an attacker displaying a hostage from a window.

In an apparently coordinated attack, four attackers also opened fire at the shrine of Khomeini, the founder of the Islamic republic, Fars reported.

It said one person was killed and several wounded in a bomb and gun attack at the shrine to the south of the capital.

Three of the attackers opened fire at visitors to the shrine, while the fourth detonated a bomb in a suicide attack outside a police station opposite the shrine, Fars said. It added that one attacker committed suicide by swallowing a cyanide pill while a female terrorist was captured.

Ali Khalili, a spokesman for the shrine, told IRNA an armed man had detonated himself outside the mausoleum.

Security at the shrine said they had defused another suicide vest at the scene.

Local media reported that Daesh had claimed responsibility for the attack through its Amaq website.

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