Gunmen attack Ahmadinejad election campaign centre: Report

Gunmen attacked President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's election campaign centre in the southeastern Iranian city of Zahedan on Friday, wounding three people including a child, the official IRNA news agency said.

IRNA said the gunmen, on motorcycles, opened fire at the centre at around 7:00 pm (2000 IST).

The attack comes a day after a suicide bomber killed 25 people and wounded 125 others in an attack on a Shiite mosque in Zahedan, in Sistan-Baluchestan province bordering Pakistan and Afghanistan.

"Three knife-wielding people on motorbikes stopped outside the centre on Saadi Street, cursed, made threats and tore up billboards," Mohammad Reza Zahed Sheikhi, who heads Ahmadinejad's election office in Zahedan, told IRNA.

He said that as the campaign workers went towards them to protest, "the attackers pulled out guns and shot at them."

He said two campaign workers, Nasser and Khodadad Miri, received arm, stomach and shoulder wounds and were taken to hospital. The child was also shot in the stomach and was undergoing surgery, he told IRNA.

"The men ran away, but the police chased and arrested them," Sheikhi said.