In this photo provided by Iranian Students' News Agency, ISNA, a medic carries a stretcher at Shah Cheragh shrine, the scene of a gunman attack in the southern city of Shiraz, Iran, Aug 13, 2023. (PHOTO / AP)

TEHRAN - At least one person was killed and eight others injured on Sunday in a "terrorist" attack on the Shah Cheragh shrine in Iran's southern Fars province, the official news agency IRNA reported.

In the evening, several staff and worshipers were caught under the gunfire of an armed assailant who attempted to break into the shrine at a main gate, IRNA reported, citing Deputy Governor of Fars Province Esmail Qezel Sofla.

In this photo provided by Islamic Republic News Agency, IRNA, medics carry a wounded man into an ambulance after an attack at the Shah Cheragh shrine in the southern city of Shiraz, Iran, Aug 13, 2023. (PHOTO / AP)

He said the "terrorist" has been arrested and is under interrogation, adding that all the injured have been transferred to the hospital.

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According to the Iranian Students' News Agency, the person killed in the attack was one of the staff working at the shrine.

The shrine encountered a similar "terrorist" attack in October last year, in which 13 worshippers, including a woman and two children, were killed and 30 others injured.