A scientist was killed and two people injured when a magnetic bomb attached to a car by a motorcyclist exploded at a university in Tehran, Iranian news agencies said.
The person killed was identified by several media as Mostafa Ahmadi Roshan, a scientist and lecturer at the university, who was in the car with two passengers.
"This morning a motorbiker attached a bomb to a Peugeot 405, which exploded," the deputy governor of Tehran province, Safar Ali Bratloo, was quoted as saying by the ILNA news agency.
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Roshan was killed and the two injured passengers were taken to hospital, Bratloo said.
The Fars news agency also reported the explosion was caused by a magnetic bomb attached to the car by a motorbiker
