1 dead, 7 injured in shooting inside Iran parliament: update

 AVA_ According to initial reports, the assailant opened his way into the parliament building while shooting at the guards, leading to the injury of one of the IRGC guards and two civilians.

The two civilians were reportedly citizens from different constituencies who had come to visit their deputies.

The male assailant escaped the building, but a ranking member of the parliament said that he was captured as he was on the run.

Senior member of the parliament's Presiding Board Akbar Ranjbarzadeh said that the assailant was arrested at the parliament's hallway.

Meantime, Elyas Hazrati, a senior MP, said that three assailants attacked the parliament, carrying 2 Kalashnikov rifles and a handgun.

Contradictory reports are coming from the parliament as one of the deputies said the assailants were three and have been trapped in the offices of the deputies.

"Clashes still continue at the parliament building," he said.

An assailant attacked the holy shrine of the late founder of the Islamic Republic, Imam Khomeini, South of the capital Tehran on Wednesday morning, wounding two people in a shooting spree.

The attack took place along with a similar incident at the parliament building.