International alarm has mounted over a deadly crackdown in Iran against protests sparked by death of young Iranian woman Mahsa Amini after her arrest by the country's notorious morality police
Ms Amini, 22, died on Friday three days after she was urgently hospitalised following her arrest by police responsible for enforcing Iran's strict dress code for women.
The province's governor Ismail Zarei Koosha confirmed the deaths of three people, claiming they were"killed suspiciously" as part of"a plot by the enemy", according to the Fars news agency. In Geneva, the UN said acting High Commissioner for Human Rights Nada Al-Nashif expressed alarm at Ms Amini's death and the"the violent response by security forces to ensuing protests."
A 10-year-old girl - images of whose blood-spattered body have gone viral on social media - was wounded in the town of Bukan but alive, it added.
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