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Scientist killed in Tehran car blast

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.

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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


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