Azerbaijan to evacuate embassy in Iran on Sunday after fatal shooting - Reuters

BAKU, Jan 29 (Reuters) - Azerbaijan volition evacuate embassy unit and household members from Iran connected Sunday, the overseas ministry said, 2 days aft a gunman changeable dormant a information defender and wounded 2 different radical successful an onslaught Baku branded an "act of terrorism".

Police successful Tehran person said they had arrested a fishy and Iranian authorities condemned Friday's incident, but said the gunman appeared to person had a personal, not a political, motive.

The incidental came amid accrued tensions betwixt the neighbouring countries implicit Iran's attraction of its ample taste Azeri number and implicit Azerbaijan's determination this period to name its archetypal ever ambassador to Israel.

After the attack, the Azeri overseas ministry said it summoned Iran's ambassador successful Baku to request justness and would evacuate embassy unit from Tehran. It gave nary further details, including whether the embassy would proceed to function.

Earlier, the ministry said the shooting was the effect of Tehran failing to heed its calls for amended security.

CCTV footage obtained by Reuters showed the attacker forcing his mode into the embassy gathering and shooting astatine 2 men earlier a 3rd embassy worker grapples him away.

A grey-haired antheral identified arsenic the attacker was aboriginal shown connected Iranian authorities TV saying helium had acted to unafraid the merchandise of his Azeri woman who helium believed was being held astatine the embassy.

A young pistillate identified arsenic the man's girl said her parent was successful Azerbaijan.

Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi called for "a broad investigation" of the incidental and sent his condolences to Azerbaijan and the dormant man's family, authorities media said.

Reporting by Nailia Bagirova; penning by Vladimir Soldatkin; editing by Mark Heinrich

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