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TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — Police in Iran have arrested an Afghan man suspected of stabbing 10 other farm workers to death following a dispute over land, Iranian state media reported Monday. The rampage in a remote village in southeastern Iran was a rare such incident in the Islamic Republic.
The official IRNA news agency reported that four Iranians and six Afghans were killed and a farm worker was injured in Sunday’s rampage and is being treated in hospital. According to the report, the suspect was mentally unstable.
A decades-long drought in Iran has led to increased disputes over water resources and land with better access to water. Shotguns are the only weapon that Iranians are allowed to legally own.
Violence has escalated in recent years in Iran as the country’s economic conditions worsen amid crushing US sanctions that have helped fuel soaring inflation and rising unemployment.
In May, an employee fired from one of Iran’s largest state-owned financial groups went on a shooting spree at his former workplace in western Iran, killing three people and injuring five before turning the gun on himself.
In 2016, a 26-year-old man killed 10 of his relatives and injured four others.
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