Two members of Iran's main armed opposition group, the People's Mujahedeen, were killed and one security guard injured in Wednesday's clashes near the southern Iranian city of Shiraz, press reports said.
The conservative Jomhuri-Eslami paper, citing a "reliable source", said Thursday that the Mujahedeen also "injured 15 people," including one security official.
According to the report, a Mujahedeen car, carrying two men and a woman, was stopped for inspection and that the Mujahedeen threw grenades at security forces.
"One of the men was killed after the men tried to escape and their car overturned," the paper said, adding that "the other swallowed a cyanide capsule."
The women was arrested, Jomhuri-Eslami said.
Money, maps, guns, a 60-millimeter mortar, 16 rockets and some cartridges were seized after the clashes, which took place in the village of Abadeh in the southern Fars province, it said.
State radio on Wednesday said the "Mujahedeen terrorists crossed into the country with the aim of planting bombs" in the country.
(In a statement faxed to AFP in Nicosia, the Mujahedeen confirmed there had been fighting in the Shiraz area, saying that two of its members were killed in three separate clashes between the villages of Abadeh and Safa-Shahr to the north of Shiraz, the provincial capital of Fars.
(It also said 35 members of the state security forces and agents of the intelligence ministry were killed or wounded in the clashes, including the commander of the local barracks.
(It named the two Mujahedeen killed as Bahram Baradaran, 31, and Ali Malek-Mohammedi, 45, saying they were shot in clashes after throwing grenades at the security forces, causing casualties.)
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