Attacks at Iranian parliament, Khomeini shrine

TEHRAN, IRAN - JUNE 07: Gunmen opened fire at Iran’s parliament and the shrine of Ayatollah Khomeini in the capital Tehran on June 07, 2017, killing at least six people. Four men attacked parliament. 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. 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. 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. 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 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. (Footage by Mohamad Hamed Tavakoli/Anadolu Agency/Getty Images)