TEHRAN, Oct 1 (NNN-IRNA) – At least 19 people have been killed in a “terrorist” attack on a police station, in the south-eastern Iranian provinces of Sistan and Baluchestan yesterday, the provincial governor, Hossein Modarres Khiabani, said.
In the day, “some rioters who belong to terrorist and separatist groups, and whose identities are known, attacked a police station, in the guise of Friday prayers, and threw stones and flammable materials, and shot in order to seize” the police station, Modarres Khiabani was quoted as saying.
In this incident, in the provincial capital Zahedan, 19 people lost their lives and 20 others were injured, including members of the police force, he said.
The attackers also set fire to other public property, including chain stores, and vandalised banks and government centres, he noted.
The military and police force gave a decisive response to the attackers and the confrontation continued until the arrest of all of them, he said, adding that his province is calm now.
Following the attack, an armed group gathered near a mosque and started shooting, and the commander of the intelligence unit of Iran’s Islamic Revolution Guards Corps in Sistan and Baluchestan, Ali Mousavi, had been killed in the clashes, Press TV reported.– NNN-IRNA
