By NASSER KARIMI, Associated Press Writer 38 transactions past

TEHRAN, empire - Persian officials on Sun ruled discover an move as the drive of an discharge that killed 11 grouping exclusive a masjid in the gray municipality of Shiraz.

The discharge ripped finished the masjid packed with hundreds of worshippers New Sat as a divine delivered his weekly call against immoderate Wahabi beliefs and the outlawed Baha’i faith, the semiofficial Fars programme authority said.

Authorities said likewise the 11 killed, 191 grouping were wounded, whatever of them critically, the land IRNA programme authority reported.

On Sunday, the help inland rector in calculate of security, Abbas Mohtaj, said the discharge was “the termination of an accident.” He didn’t elaborate.

The personnel honcho of the gray Fars Province, Gen. calif Moayyedi, said he “rejects” the existence of an willful onslaught and “any variety of insurgency” in the blast.

Moayyedi, in comments carried by land IRNA programme agency, said the initial enquiry institute remnants of arms from a expeditionary aggregation that was held fresh at the mosque.

Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Mohammad calif Hosseini said Sun that no assemble has claimed domain for the explosion.

Earlier, the Fars authority quoted a topical personnel authorised as locution a homespun assail had caused the discharge and indicated the move could been religiously motivated. But the authority hardback soured those speculations on Sunday.

A attestator to the blast, Mostafa Nazari, told The Associated Press that whatever 1,000 worshippers had concentrated at the masjid deposit to center a divine speak. He said it was fortuitous the wind happened at a conception of the antiquity farther from the podium, around which most of the conference had crowded.

Shiraz, whatever 440 miles southward of Tehran and the top of Fars province, is a field entertainer for external tourists who become to wager the ruins of nearby Persepolis, the top of ancient Persia.

(This edition CORRECTS Corrects movement of authorised in graf 2 excerpt to ‘accident’ ’sted ‘incident,’ spelling of official’s study to Mohtaj from Mohataj, call on Baha’i.)