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Iran: Police arrested Afghanistan on suspicion of stabbing and killing 10 people

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{ TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — Iranian police have arrested an Afghan man on suspicion of stabbing 10 other farm workers to death after a dispute over land, Iranian state media said Monday. reported to The rampage in a remote village in southeastern Iran was a rare incident in the Islamic Republic.

Officially his IRNA news agency said four Iranians and six of his Afghans were killed and one farm worker injured in Sunday's rampage and hospitalized. said there is. According to reports, the suspect was mentally unstable.

Decades of drought in Iran have increased conflicts over water resources and land with good access to water. Hunting rifles are the only weapons Iranians are legally allowed to possess.

Violence in Iran has intensified in recent years as the country's economic situation worsens as US sanctions, which have fueled rapid inflation and rising unemployment, have been crushed.

In May a fired employee from one of his largest state-owned financial conglomerates in Iran opened fire at his former workplace in western Iran, killing three and injuring five. Then I pointed the gun at myself.

In 2016, a 26-year-old man shot dead 10 of his relatives and wounded four.