Jihadists killed one policeman in Iran’s restive southeastern province of Sistan-Baluchistan, Iranian media reports, 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 says.
The attackers were members of the Sunni jihadist group Jaish al-Adl (“Army of Justice” in Arabic) based in Pakistan and active in Iran’s southeast, the agency says.
“Three terrorists were killed and two were arrested,” Tasnim adds.
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.
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