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DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) —
Unknown attackers launched a gun and grenade attack on a court
building in southeast Iran Saturday, killing six people
including a child and wounding 20, state TV reported.
The report said security forces killed three of the gunmen in
the armed clash in the country’s restive southern province of
Sistan and Baluchestan. It did not identify any of the victims.
State TV said the attack happened in the province's capital city
of Zahedan. Police and security forces immediately took control
of the site, 1,130 kilometers or 700 miles southeast of the
capital, Tehran.
A report by the semiofficial Tasnim news agency, believed to be
close to security forces, blamed the attack on the militant
group Jaish al-Adl, which wants independence for Iran’s eastern
Sistan and Pakistan’s southwestern Baluchistan provinces.
The province, bordering Afghanistan and Pakistan, has been the
site of occasional deadly clashes involving militant groups,
armed drug smugglers and Iranian security forces.
In October, an attack on an Iranian police convoy in the
province killed at least 10 officers.
Sistan and Baluchistan province 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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