A university professor was killed Tuesday in a bombing in Tehran, local English-language Press TV reported.

According to the report, Dr. Massoud Mohammadi, professor of the Tehran University was killed by a remote control bomb attached to a motorbike.

The explosion took place near the professor's home in Qeytariyeh neighborhood, in northern Tehran, Press TV said.

Local ISNA news agency reported that the professor was a nuclear scientist.

The Islamic Republic of Iran Broadcasting (IRIB) said on its website that Mohammadi who was "a committed and revolutionary Tehran University professor" was killed in a "terrorist act by counter-revolutionary and arrogant powers' elements."

Iran's official IRNA news agency quoted an unnamed policeman as saying that the number of victims during the bomb blast was still uncertain.