(CNN) -- Nine people were killed and 20 were wounded in what Iranian authorities call a terrorist attack in the northwestern city of Mahabad, state-run Press TV said Wednesday.
The governor-general of the western Azerbaijan province said the explosion took place at the scene of a military parade and almost all of the victims were women and children, according to the state-run Islamic Republic News Agency.
Iran's Sacred Defense Week ceremonies started Wednesday with the parade of different units of Iran's armed forces in southern Tehran, the IRNA said.
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