Eleven security personnel killed in Iran police station attack: State TV | News

A minimal of 11 Iranian security personnel have been killed in an assault on a police station inside the southeastern border province of Sistan-Baluchestan, state television reported.

Alireza Marhamati, deputy governor of the province, acknowledged on Friday that senior legislation enforcement officers and troopers have been killed and injured inside the 2am (22:30 GMT Thursday) assault inside the metropolis of Rask, about 1,400km (875 miles) southwest of the capital, Tehran.

Numerous assailants have been moreover killed in a shootout that ensued with the protection forces, in line with state television tales.

The assault was one among many deadliest in years inside the space close to Iran’s border with Afghanistan and Pakistan.

The Jaish al-Adl (Navy of Justice), a Sunni armed group, claimed responsibility for the assault, state media acknowledged. Jaish al-Adl was formed in 2012 and is blacklisted by Iran as a “terror” group.

Unrest has plagued the impoverished province of Sistan-Baluchestan attributable to drugs-smuggling gangs, rebels from the Baluchi minority and Sunni Muslim hardliners.

Security forces usually targeted

Associated assaults have beforehand taken place, along with in July when 4 policemen have been killed whereas on patrol. That assault acquired right here two weeks after two policemen and 4 assailants have been killed in a shootout inside the province, for which Jaish al-Adl claimed responsibility.

In Would possibly, 5 Iranian border guards died in clashes with an armed group in Saravan, southeast of Zahedan, the provincial capital of Sistan-Baluchestan.

State media reported on the time that the assault was carried out by “a terrorist group that was in search of to infiltrate the nation” nevertheless whose members “fled the scene after struggling accidents”.

In late Would possibly, state-run data firm IRNA quoted police official Qassem Rezaee as saying that “Taliban forces” had shot at an Iranian police station in Sistan-Baluchestan, a drought-hit space. Iran and Afghanistan have been at odds over water rights.

Zahedan, one among many few Sunni-majority cities in predominantly Shia Iran, was moreover the positioning of months-long deadly protests that erupted in September closing 12 months over the alleged rape of a teenage lady by a police officer.

Jaish al-Adl and its affiliate groups primarily based in Pakistan have been accused of committing cross-border assaults in the direction of Iranian forces.