People pray over the flag-draped coffins of victims of a terrorist attack during their funeral ceremony in the city of Kerman about 510 miles southeast of the capital Tehran, Iran, January 5, 2024
IRAN’S Intelligence Ministry today identified a top suspect, described as ringleader and bomb-maker, in the twin suicide bombings last week claimed by the Islamic State group as the death toll from the attack rose to at least 94, local media reported.
The January 3 attack, in which two suicide bombers targeted a commemoration for an Iranian general slain in a 2020 United States drone strike in Iraq, was the deadliest in Iran in decades as the wider Middle East remains on edge.
One bomber first detonated his explosives at the ceremony in Kerman, about 510 miles south-east of Tehran, then another attacked 20 minutes later as emergency workers and other people tried to help the wounded from the first explosion.
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