At the very least six individuals, together with a neighborhood chief of the paramilitary revolutionary guard, have been killed by unidentified gunmen in two separate assaults on Tuesday in southern Iran, in response to state media.
The primary assault happened within the southeastern province of Sistan and Baluchistan, the place the pinnacle of a city council, recognized as Parviz Kadkhodaei, and two volunteer members of the guard have been killed, in response to state media.The incident occurred after the victims had participated in a faculty ceremony within the city of Nikshahar, about 1,350 kilometers (840 miles) southeast of the capital, Tehran.
The second assault happened within the city of Khash, in the identical province, killing two law enforcement officials, state media reported.
No group has but claimed accountability for the assaults, in response to state media.
Earlier in September, 4 border guards have been killed by gunmen within the province in two separate assaults. Jaish al-Adl, a militant group searching for higher rights for the ethnic Baluch minority, claimed accountability for a type of assaults, which killed one officer and two troopers within the border guard.
The province, one of many least developed components of Iran, has usually seen lethal clashes involving Iranian safety forces, militant teams, and drug smugglers. It borders Afghanistan and Pakistan and has a historical past of strained relations between its predominantly Sunni Muslim residents and Iran’s Shiite theocracy.
