Assault on Zahedan police station leaves two policemen, four gunmen dead
Four gunmen were killed in an attack on a police station in Zahedan, Sistan and Baluchestan Province, in southeastern Iran on Saturday.
Four unidentified armed men attacked a police station in Zahedan, triggering deadly clashes with the officers, during which two policemen were killed.
In a statement, the Quds Force of Iran’s Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) said “four terrorists” were involved in the attack, all of whom were killed in the operation.
According to Tasnim news agency, the Jeish-ul-Adl terrorist group claimed responsibility for the attack.
The terrorist group allegedly operates from across the border in Pakistan.
The attack began after armed men used grenades to open their way into the police station.
Ali Reza Marhamati, the province’s deputy governor for security affairs, said that the attack began at 07:15 local time (03:45 GMT).
Security forces managed to take control of the situation by their timely presence at the scene of the attack, IRIB quoted him as saying.
A security official refused reports suggesting that the incident was a suicide attack.
Earlier reports suggested that the attackers were wearing suicide vests and two of them have blown themselves up.