At least five security personnel, including a police station deputy, were killed in “terrorist attacks” in the south of the country on Thursday, Iranian state media said.
According to the news agency AFP, Deputy Governor Ali Raza Marhamati told the state TV that five security personnel were martyred in multiple terrorist attacks on police stations in Rask and Chabahar cities of Sistan and Balochistan province during the night. are.’
According to the official broadcasting agency IRIB, “In an attack on the police station number 11 of Chabahar city, deputy of the station Abbas Mir was martyred.”
According to the news agency Reuters, Iranian media say that eight of the attackers were also killed.
The statement also said that the militant group Jaish al-Adl, which was formed in 2012 and is blacklisted by Iran as a ‘terrorist’ group, claimed responsibility for the attacks.
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Bordering Afghanistan and Pakistan, Sistan and Baluchistan province has been plagued by drug-trafficking gangs, insurgents and militants from the Baloch minority for years.
In December last year, according to Iran’s state television, 11 security personnel were killed and many others were injured in an attack on a police station by Baloch militants in the southeastern province of Sistan-Baluchistan.
According to the Reuters news agency, Iran’s official media also reported that several members of the militant Jaish-e-Adl group were also killed in the clashes in the town of Rusk in Sistan-Baluchistan province.
In July last year, two policemen and four assailants were killed in an attack on another police station in Zahedan, the capital of the same province.
