Gunmen ambushed a police convoy in Iran’s restive southeastern region on Tuesday, killing six police officers, media reported.
Attacks on roads in Sistan and Balochistan also injured two other police officers, the Young Journalists Club, a website of the state broadcaster, reported. According to reports, the militant group “Jaish al-Adl” has claimed responsibility for the attack.
The report could not be independently verified. The militants are said to have been fighting for greater rights for the region’s Baloch minority. Iran and some other countries consider it a terrorist organization.
It was the second attack on security forces in as many weeks, signaling a deterioration in the security situation in the region. Clashes in three different areas of the province last week left 10 Iranian soldiers and 18 militants dead. Six other members of the security forces later died in hospital.
The province borders Afghanistan and Pakistan and is the site of occasionally deadly clashes between militants, armed drug smugglers and Iranian security forces. In December, militants killed nearly a dozen police officers in an attack on a police station in the province.
Sistan and Balochistan is one of the least developed regions in Iran. Relations between the region’s predominantly Sunni Muslim residents and Iran’s Shia theocracy have long been tense.
Follow us on Google news ,Twitter , and Join Whatsapp Group of thelocalreport.in
