Iran hangs five for plotting bomb attacks

TEHRAN - Five people were hanged Sunday in Tehran for plotting bomb attacks, Iranian state-run Press TV reported.

They were hanged in Tehran’s Evin prison, the public prosecutor’s office said.

The PJAK terrorist group, the Iranian offshoot of Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK), planned one of the attacks.

Three accused were arrested in 2006. Weapons and explosives were seized from their possession.

One more was arrested for planting a bomb near a military base in Tehran.

The last of the five was convicted for involvement in a deadly bombing in Shiraz city in 2008.