TEHRAN, Oct. 15 (Xinhuanet) -- Two people were killed and 50 others injured in two bomb blasts in the southwestern Iranian city of Ahvaz on Saturday, state television reported.

    The bombs exploded in quick succession near a shop in Ahvaz, the capital city of the oil-rich Khuzestan province bordering Iraq.  

    On June 12, three bombs exploded concurrently near public facilities in the city, killing eight people and injuring scores of others.

    In mid-April, at least five people died in a wave of riots triggered by a forged letter which was said to be written by former Vice-President Mohammad Ali Abtahi to promote a coercive migration of the ethnic Arabs in the province.

    Khuzestan accounts for almost 90 percent of Iran's nearly 132 billion barrels of proven oil reserve and most of the country's two million ethnic Arabs live in the province.  Enditem