Tehran police chief: "Family problems" stand behind Azerbaijan embassy attack

REGION  27 January 2023 - 11:54

Tehran's police chief Brigadier General Rahimi has said that preliminary investigation shows that personal and family problems stand behind the January 27 deadly attack on the Azerbaijani embassy in Tehran.

"Through the swift police action, the attacker was immediately arrested and was put under investigation. Preliminary investigation shows that the attacker's motive was personal and family problems," Mehr News reports, quoting Rahimi.

He confirmed that the attacker entered the Azerbaijan embassy with a firearm on January 27 and that one person was killed and two were injured in his assault.

A source close to the Iranian Revolutionary Guards Corps noted that the attacker at the Azerbaijani embassy in Tehran was a 50-year-old man.

"According to preliminary investigation data, he drove up to the administrative building in a Pride car together with two minor children: a 14-year-old girl and a 7-year-old boy," the source said. 

The head of the Azerbaijani embassy security service, Orkhan Asgarov, was killed and two other security officers were injured in the attack on the embassy in the early hours of January 27. 

Türkiye and Russia condemned the attack.

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