Suspected members of a separatist group Jaish al-Adl killed 11 Iranian Policemen and injured several others in a nighttime attack on a police station in southeastern Iran, state TV said Friday, Associated Press (AP) reports.
The deputy governor of Sistan and Baluchistan province, Ali Reza Marhemati, said senior police officers and soldiers were killed in the 2 a.m. attack in Rask town, about 1,400 kilometers (875 miles) southwest of Tehran, according to the report by AP.
He said police killed several of the attackers in a shootout.
State TV blamed the attack that saw 11 Iranian Policemen killed on Jaish al-Adl, a separatist group. In 2019, Jaish al-Adl claimed responsibility for a suicide bombing on a bus that killed 27 members of Iran’s Revolutionary Guard force.
In recent months, militants and small separatist groups in the predominantly Sunni region have attacked police stations as part of a low-level insurgency against the government.