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- Sistan-Baluchistan has been the site of frequent clashes between security forces and insurgents or smugglers
- On July 26, gunmen had stormed a courthouse in the province’s capital Zahedan, killing at least six people
TEHRAN: Militants killed one policeman in Iran’s restive southeastern province of Sistan-Baluchistan, Iranian media reported Sunday, adding that three assailants also died.
“A policeman from Saravan was killed while terrorists were trying to enter the police station” in that area of Sistan-Baluchistan, the Tasnim news agency said.
The agency said the attackers were members of Jaish Al-Adl (Arabic for ‘Army of Justice’) Baloch militant group, which operates from the borderlands between Iran, Pakistan and Afghanistan, mainly the Sistan-Baluchestan triangle, but active inside Iran.
“Three terrorists were killed and two were arrested,” Tasnim said.
Sistan-Baluchistan, which shares a long border with Pakistan and Afghanistan, has been the site of frequent clashes between security forces and insurgents or smugglers.
The province hosts a significant population from the Baloch ethnic minority, which practices Sunni Islam in Shiite-majority Iran.
On July 26, gunmen stormed a courthouse in the province’s capital Zahedan, killing at least six people, in an attack that was later claimed by Jaish Al-Adl.
In one of the deadliest attacks in the province, 10 police officers were killed in October.