Reports: Man shoots dead 7 family members in Iran
{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}Iranian media says a man has shot dead seven members of his wife's family in the southwestern city of Dezful.
The state-owned IRNA news agency said Sunday the shooter wielded a Kalashnikov rifle killing five men and two women, before shooting himself.
The agency reported the shooter survived and is in hospital, but did not release his name.
{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}Gun violence is rare in Iran, where citizens are only allowed to own licensed hunting rifles.
In January 2017, a man gunned down five people in a rampage in the central Iranian city of Arak. A month earlier a man killed 10 relatives in a remote rural area in the country's south.