Four people were killed on Sunday in southeastern Iran during an attempted armed assault on a police station in Sistan-Baluchestan Province, a region long plagued by insurgent violence and cross-border militancy.
According to local security reports, one police officer from the city of Saravan lost his life when armed militants tried to storm the police facility. Three attackers were killed in the ensuing clash, while two others were captured alive by security forces.
Authorities have identified the assailants as members of the Baloch militant group Jaish al-Adl, which is based in Pakistan and operates in southeastern Iran. The province lies about 1,200 kilometers southeast of Tehran and shares extensive borders with both Pakistan and Afghanistan.
Sistan-Baluchestan has been the scene of frequent armed confrontations between Iranian security forces, including the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, and insurgents from the Baloch minority, as well as other militant factions and drug trafficking networks.
The attack follows a series of violent incidents in the region. On 26 July, gunmen stormed a courthouse in the provincial capital Zahedan, killing at least six people in an assault later claimed by Jaish al-Adl.
In October last year, one of the deadliest attacks in the province’s recent history left ten police officers dead in what authorities also described as a terrorist operation.
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