TEHRAN, Iran (AP) – Six cops had been killed when armed teams ambushed a police convoy in Iran’s restive southeast on Tuesday, in accordance with media stories.
Two different cops had been additionally injured within the assault on a highway in Sistan and Baluchistan provinces, in accordance with state broadcaster web site yjc.ir. The extremist group Jaish al-Adl claimed duty for the assault, in accordance with the report.
This report couldn’t be independently verified. The militants are mentioned to be preventing for better rights for the area’s Baluchi minority. Iran and several other different international locations contemplate it a terrorist group.
This is the second assault concentrating on safety forces in current weeks, and exhibits the deteriorating safety state of affairs within the area. Clashes in three separate areas of the province final week left 10 Iranian troops and 18 militants killed throughout preventing, with six extra members of the safety forces later dying in hospital.
The province, which borders each Afghanistan and Pakistan, has been the topic of occasional lethal clashes involving militants, armed drug smugglers and Iranian safety forces. In December, militants attacked a police station within the state, killing greater than a dozen cops.
Sistan and Baluchistan are among the many least developed areas of Iran. Relations between the area’s predominantly Sunni Muslim inhabitants and Iran’s Shiite theocracy have lengthy been strained.