Gunmen killed a senior security official in Sistan-Baluchestan province, in southeastern Iran, according to Iran’s Mehr News Agency, on Friday.
The group said, “Friday afternoon, terrorists killed the Deputy Chief of Security Police of Khash City, Hussein Berry, near his home after he attended Friday prayers in his personal clothes.”
Sistan-Baluchestan, located on the borders of Iran-Pakistan and Afghanistan and inhabited by a Sunni minority, has seen years of conflict between security forces and terrorist groups in Iran.
The border province is among the poorest in Iran, and often sees attacks on security forces and security incidents caused by gunmen belonging to extremist groups, rebels from the Baloch minority. , or drug and fuel smuggling networks.
Last month, four traffic police officers were killed as a result of a “terrorist attack” that targeted them in the province of Sistan-Baluchestan, according to what official media said.
The region also saw the killing of a policeman in an attack on a police station in the city of Zahedan, the provincial capital, last July, which involved an exchange of gunfire that resulted in the death of the four attackers, who according to an official. media.
The attack was claimed at the time by the Sunni extremist group “Army of Justice” in the province, which Tehran calls “terrorist” and which it accuses of carrying out the attacks. have launched from neighboring Pakistan.
The group claimed a similar attack last December, which resulted in the killing of 11 Iranian police officers.
There was a situation of instability in the Iranian region of Sistan and Baluchestan in 2022 when its residents joined protest movements that began throughout Iran against the background of the death of Kurdish Mahsa Amini (22 years old ) after she was arrested by the morality police for not complying with the strict dress code in the Islamic Republic.
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2024-08-23 15:02:19
