One person died on Tuesday and four police officers were injured during anti-government protests in Iran, according to reports.
The official IRNA news agency said that a “police assistant” died from their injuries in the southern city of Shiraz and 15 people were arrested.
“On Tuesday evening some people clashed with police officers and as a result one of the police assistants was killed,” IRNA said. “In this incident four other police officers were injured in Shiraz.”
Protests have been held across Iran since a 22-year-old woman died after she was arrested by the morality police in Tehran and accused of violating strict hijab rules.
Officials said that Mahsa Amini had a heart attack and was taken to hospital, but her family blame the police for her death, and reports say that she was beaten with batons and suffered a brain injury.
At protest in the northern city of Sari crowds cheered as women set fire to their headscarves. Demonstrations also took place in Istanbul, Toronto and Berlin in solidarity with Iranian protesters and Ms Amini’s family.
Earlier, three people, including a boy of 16, were killed in protests in Iran. One person was killed when security forces opened fire on protesters in Ms Amini’s home city of Saqez on Monday; another died and 15 others were injured in Divandarreh from “direct fire”, according to the Hengaw Organisation for Human Rights; and a third person was killed in Dehgolan in clashes between police and protesters.
