Iran arrests suspects of terrorist attack in Kerman

Ahmad Vahidi, the Minister of Interior of Iran told reporters on January 5 that a number of suspects behind the deadly terrorist attack in Kerman have been arrested by the intelligence forces, Mehr News reports.

"Intelligence apparatuses have been able to find good clues, some of those who were involved in this incident have been arrested, whose information will be reported later by the security agencies," he also said. 

"Out of the total of 88 martyrs in the terrorist incident in Kerman, nearly 54 are women and 34 are men, we have 12 Afghan migrant martyrs, and nearly 10 are under the age of 10. As many as 30 people are under 18 years old, some of them will be buried in Kerman, more than 50 of them, others will be buried in other cities of Kerman province, and some will be buried in other provinces," the minister said.

The ISIL terrorist group has claimed the terrorist attack in Kerman which happened on January 3.