Iranian Soldiers Killed On Pakistan Border

Earlier on Monday, Iran’s Revolutionary Guards reportedly broke up a militant group linked to a “foreign intelligence”

　

　

Report from

Deutsche Welle

Iranian soldiers killed on Pakistan border

Iranian news agencies are reporting that gunmen have killed eight Iranian guards, The incident occurred near the border with Pakistan in the southern Sistan-Baluchistan province.

Iranian news agencies are reporting that gunmen have killed eight Iranian guards, The incident occurred near the border with Pakistan in the southern Sistan-Baluchistan province.

The guards clashed on Monday with Sunni rebels, who had come in from neighboring Pakistan, according to Iran’s IRNA news agency.

The southeastern province of Sisan-Baluchistan, which has a large Sunni community, has experienced repeated attacks my militants on mainly Shiite Iran’s security forces.

“Armed terrorists entered Iran from Pakistan and clashed with border guards, killing eight soldiers before fleeing back to Pakistan,” said Ali Asghar Mirshekari, deputy governor of Sistan-Baluchistan.

Iran’s semi-official Fars news agency said four of the eight soldiers killed were conscripts.

There was a second incident reported from the region earlier on Monday. IRNA said Iran’s Revolutionary Guards killed and detained members of a militant group linked to a “foreign intelligence” agency, also confiscating weapons and communications equipment.

Source:

http://www.dw.de/iranian-soldiers-killed-on-pakistan-border/a-18364274

　

Raport from Internatinal Business Times

Iran: Eight border guards killed by Sunni militants in Sistan-Baluchistan

By

Gianluca Mezzofiore

　

Sunni rebels who infiltrated Iran’s restive Sistan-Baluchistan province from neighbouring Pakistan have killed eight Iranian border guards, according to the official Irna news agency.

“Armed terrorists entered Iran from Pakistan and clashed with border guards, killing eight soldiers before fleeing back to Pakistan,” Ali Asghar Mirshekari, deputy governor of the province, told the agency.

Earlier on Monday, Iran’s Revolutionary Guards reportedly broke up a militant group linked to a “foreign intelligence” agency, according to Irna, killing three of its members and detaining several others. The Islamic Republic’s guards also seized a large amount of weapons and communication equipment from the militant group

The Sistan-Baluchistan province has a large Sunni community and has been the scene of clashes between Iranian forces and militant groups linked to al-Qaeda.

In 2013, three members of the country’s Revolutionary Guards were killed by a bomb blast. The men were part of an engineering division and had been working on construction projects near the city of Saravan.

A Sunni militant group, Jaish al-Adl, had claimed the attack.

Source:

http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/iran-eight-border-guards-killed-by-sunni-militants-sistan-baluchistan-1495139

Guardians Report:

Eight Iranian guards shot dead on Pakistan border

Attack reported in Sistan-Baluchistan province is in area of occasional clashes between militants believed to be linked to al-Qaida

Iran’s semi-official Fars news agency says gunmen have killed eight Iranian border guards in the country’s volatile south-east, near the border with

Pakistan.

The report says the attack happened on Monday in Sistan-Baluchistan province. Fars says four of the soldiers killed were conscripts.

The area has been the scene of occasional clashes between Iranian forces and militant groups believed to be affiliated with al-Qaida. It was the second incident reported there in a day.

Earlier on Monday, Iran’s official news agency, IRNA, said Revolutionary Guard units broke up a militant group linked to a foreign intelligence agency, killed three of its members and detained several others. IRNA also said Guard forces confiscated a large amount of weapons and communication equipment

　

Source:

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/apr/07/iranian-guards-shot-dead-pakistan-border