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The report stated the Jaish al-Adl militant group has claimed accountability for the assault. (Consultant picture)
The report couldn’t be independently verified. The militants have allegedly been preventing for larger rights for the ethnic Baluch minority within the area
Gunmen ambushed a police convoy in Iran’s restive southeast on Tuesday, killing six policemen, media stories stated.
The assault on a highway in Sistan and Baluchistan province additionally left two different policemen wounded, in response to yjc.ir, a web site affiliated with the state broadcasting firm. The report stated the Jaish al-Adl militant group has claimed accountability for the assault.
The report couldn’t be independently verified. The militants have allegedly been preventing for larger rights for the ethnic Baluch minority within the area. Iran and another nations contemplate it to be a terrorist group.
The assault was the second in as many weeks focusing on safety forces, indicating deterioration of the safety state of affairs within the area. Final week’s clashes in three separate areas of the province left 10 Iranian troops and 18 militants killed in the course of the preventing and 6 extra members of the safety forces died later within the hospital.
The province, bordering each Afghanistan and Pakistan, has sometimes been the location of lethal clashes involving militants, armed drug smugglers and Iranian safety forces. In December, militants killed almost a dozen cops in an assault on a police station within the province.
Sistan and Baluchistan is without doubt one of the least developed components of Iran. Relations between the predominantly Sunni Muslim residents of the area and Iran’s Shiite theocracy have lengthy been strained.
