Online videos and local media reported gunshots, as nationwide protests entered a fifth week. 9News
Flames and smoke rising from Tehran's Evin Prison had been widely visible on Saturday evening,In online videos, gunshots and explosions could be heard in the area of the prison.An Iranian security official said "thugs" set fire to the warehouse of prison clothing, which led to a fire in the prison, Iranian state media IRNA reported.
State TV on Sunday aired video of the fire's aftermath, showing scorched walls and ceilings in a room it said was the upper floor of a sewing workshop at the prison. The official said the "situation is completely under control" and that firefighters were extinguishing the flames. Later, Tehran prosecutor Ali Salehi said that calm had returned to the prison and that the unrest was not related to the protests which have swept the country for four weeks.IRNA later reported nine people had been injured, without elaborating. It published video showing burnt debris scattered around a building, with firefighters spraying down the blaze's embers.
Witnesses said that police blocked roads and highways to Evin prison and that at least three strong explosions were heard coming from the area. The prison fire occurred as protesters intensified anti-government demonstrations along main streets and at universities in some cities across Iran on Saturday.
In the city of Sanandaj, a hotspot for demonstrations in the northern Kurdish region, school girls chanted "woman, life, freedom" down a central street.in police custody. Iranian authorities have dismissed the unrest as a purported Western plot, without providing evidence.Public anger in Iran has coalesced around Amini's death, prompting girls and women to remove their mandatory headscarves on the street in a show of solidarity.
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