TEHRAN: Gunmen killed five police officers today in Iran’s southeastern province of Sistan and Baluchistan, state media reported.
According to the official IRNA news agency, the officers were patrolling in two police vehicles when they came under attack on a road near Iranshahr, approximately 1,300 kilometres southeast of Tehran. The report did not provide details on any additional injuries.
No group has claimed responsibility for the incident so far.
Sistan and Baluchistan, which borders Afghanistan and Pakistan, has occasionally witnessed deadly clashes involving militant groups, armed drug traffickers, and Iranian security forces. It is also one of Iran’s least developed provinces.
In July, gunmen and attackers using grenades targeted a court building in the provincial capital, Zahedan, killing six people, including a child, and injuring 20 others.
