TEHRAN, Iran — Six law enforcement officials had been killed on Tuesday when an armed group ambushed a police convoy within the restive southeast of Iran, in response to media reviews.
Two different law enforcement officials had been additionally injured within the assault on a highway in Sistan and Baluchistan provinces, in response to state broadcaster web site yjc.ir. The extremist group Jaish al-Adl claimed duty for the assault, in response to the report.
This report couldn’t be independently verified. The militants are stated to be combating for larger rights for the area’s Baluchi minority. Iran and a number of other different nations contemplate it a terrorist group.
This is the second assault concentrating on safety forces in latest weeks, and reveals the deteriorating safety scenario within the area. Clashes in three separate areas of the province final week left 10 Iranian troops and 18 militants killed throughout combating, 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 law enforcement officials.
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.