Five security officers are killed in militant attack in Iran’s southeast

At least five security officers were killed and one was injured in Iran as armed gangs linked to Jaish ul-Adl group attacked two police vehicles in Sib and Soran Counties in Sistan and Baluchistan Province on Tuesday, local media reported. Sunni militant group Jaish ul-Adl claimed responsibility for the attack in a statement released on Tuesday afternoon. Alireza Marhamati, deputy governor of Sistan and Baluchistan for security affairs said about the attack that some armed gangs attacked a Law Enforcement patrol team. He said search operation was underway to find the armed criminals. Semi-official Tasnim news agency reported that the police officers were on their way from transporting a suspect in the killing of a police officer shot dead in March. Tuesday’s incident follows the deadly attack on Sistan and Baluchistan Province that killed at least eleven Iranian security force members last week.