Unknown attackers launched an attack on pistol and grenade against a judicial building in southeast Iran on Saturday, killing six people – including a child – and injuries of 20, television reported.
The report indicates that the security forces killed three of the armed men during the armed confrontation in the southern province of the country of Sistan and Baluchietan. He did not identify any of the victims.
State television said that the attack had taken place in the capital of Zahedan province. Police and security forces immediately took control of the site, 1,130 kilometers or 700 miles south-east of the capital, Tehran.
A report by the semi-official Tasnim news agency, which would be close to the security forces, blamed the attack on the militant group Jaish al-Adl, which wants the independence of Iranian East Sistan and the Baluchistan provinces in southwest Pakistan.
The province, bordering Afghanistan and Pakistan, was the site of occasional mortal clashes involving militant groups, armed drug addicts and Iranian security forces.
In October, A attack on an Iranian police convoy In the province, killed at least 10 officers.
The province of Sistan and Baluchistan is one of the least developed parts of Iran. Relations between Muslim residents with Sunni predominance of the region and Iran’s Shiite theocracy have long been tense.