The shooters killed five civilians during the “terrorist attack” on the judicial building in Southeast Iran on Saturday before they were killed, the state media reported.
“UNTIL DEAGES of the gunmen attacked the first resort in Zalenan,” said the capital of the province of southeast Sistan-Blochistan, Mizan Online Judicial.
“In this terrorist attack, five people were killed and 13 injured,” the report said, adding that the numbers are “preliminary” and tolls can increase.
The IRNA official press agency independently said that three attackers were killed during the attack, quoting the Regional Center of the Islamic Revolutionary Guards (IRGC).
According to Alireza Daliri, a representative of the police commander of the province of Sistan-Blochistan, the attackers tried to enter the building masked as visitors.
The attackers threw a grenade into the building, Daliri said, killing several people inside, including a one -year -old child and a child’s mother.
According to the Iranian media Jaish Al-Aad (Arabic for the “Army of Justice”), Baloch Jihadist group based in Pakistan, but also active in Iran, for attacking responsibility.
It is located about 1200 kilometers (745 miles) southeast of the capital Tehran, Rest -Provincie shares a long border with Pakistan and Afghanistan.
This area was a scene of recurring clashes between Iranian security forces, including IRGC, and rebels from Baluch’s minority, radical Sunni groups and drug traders.
In one of the deadliest incidents in the region, ten police officers were killed in October in October in what the authorities also referred to as a “terrorist” attack.
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