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The head of a town council and two volunteer members of the
Guard were also among the dead in the first attack, it said. It
occurred after the victims participated in a school ceremony in
Nikshahar town, about 1,350 kilometers (840 miles) southeast of
the capital, Tehran, the report said.
It identified the town council chief as Parviz Kadkhodaei but
provided no other details of the attack in the southeastern
province of Sistan and Baluchistan.
Two police officers were killed in the second attack, which took
place in Khash town in the same province, it said.
No one immediately took responsibility for the attacks.
In September, gunmen killed four border guards in the province
in two separate attacks. The militant group Jaish al-Adl, which
seeks greater rights for the ethnic Baluch minority, claimed
responsibility for one the attacks, in which one officer and two
soldiers in the border guard were killed.
The province, bordering Afghanistan and Pakistan, has been the
site of occasional deadly clashes involving militant groups,
drug smugglers and Iranian security forces. It is one of the
least developed parts of Iran. Relations between the
predominantly Sunni Muslim residents of the region and Iran’s
Shiite theocracy have long been strained.
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