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Azerbaijan to evacuate embassy in Iran on Sunday after fatal shooting

People mourn during the funeral of Orkhan Askerov, a security guard at Azerbaijan's embassy in Iran shot dead by a gunman in a recent attack, in Baku, Azerbaijan, January 30, 2023. REUTERS/Aziz Karimov

Azerbaijan will evacuate embassy staff and family members from Iran on Sunday, the foreign ministry said, two days after a gunman shot dead a security guard and wounded two other people in an attack Baku branded an "act of terrorism".

Police in Tehran have said they had arrested a suspect and Iranian authorities condemned Friday's incident, but said the gunman appeared to have had a personal, not a political, motive.

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