This article was originally published by Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty and is reprinted with permission.
An attack on a police patrol in southeastern Iran has left 10 officers dead, the Interior Ministry said.
The attack occurred in Gohar Kuh, in Sistan-Baluchistan Province, some 1,200 kilometers southeast of the capital, Tehran. No group has claimed responsibility so far.
The Tasnim news agency, which is linked to Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps, reported an attack on “two police patrols returning to their police station.”
Interior Minister Eskandar Momeni has ordered an investigation into the incident, the state-run IRNA news agency reported.
Sistan-Baluchistan has been rocked by a spate of deadly attacks targeting security forces in recent months. Those previous attacks have been claimed by Jaish al-Adl, a Baluch separatist militant group that is believed to be operating out of neighboring Pakistan.
