TEHRAN (AA): At least two people were killed, 43 injured, in a car bombing in Iran’s southeastern port city of Chabahar, Sistan-Balouchestan Province.on Thursday, according to a local official.

Provincial governor Rahmdel Bamri told local media a booby-trapped vehicle attempted to enter a police headquarters in the city.

However, the bomb went off at the entrance of the facility after security guards intercepted the vehicle.

Bamri said in an earlier statement that four people had been killed before telling state T.V. that only two people were killed and at least 43 people were reportedly injured in the attack.

The injured have been transferred to hospitals for treatment.

Vice-Chancellor of the Faculty of Medical Sciences in Iranshahr south of Sistan-Balouchestan Province Kamran Kordi told the Islamic Republic News Agency (IRNA) on Thursday that 31 of the injured were discharged from hospital after treatment.

Kordi said 10 of the injured were police staff and the rest ordinary citizens, who frequented around the site of the incident.

He added that 12 of the injured are now getting treated and their general condition is satisfactory. Three are in ICU, he noted.

According to the official there are four children, a pregnant woman and a number of ordinary citizens among the injured.

Iranian media reported that the attack was claimed by the Ansar Al-Furqan, a Baloch militant organization designated as a terrorist group by Iranian authorities.

However, Brigadier General Mohammad Pakpour, commander of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, denied the claim, saying “no group or individual has until the moment claimed responsibility for the attack.

Additional report from Iranian News Agency

[Photo: Officials inspect the scene after a car bombing in Iran’s southeastern city of Chabahar, Iran on December 6, 2018. At least three people were killed after a suicide bomber drove his explosives-laden vehicle into a police headquarters in the city. Photographer: Stringer/AA]