TEHRAN: Two Iranian civilians were killed in a cross-border attack by Paki
stani insurgents, the Revolutionary Guards claimed on Sunday.
“On Saturday evening, a terrorist team… fired (ammunition) from within Paki
stani territory toward the Iranian border region of Saravan in Sistan-Baluchis
tan province,” the Guards said in a statement on their Sepahnews website. “Two local workers in the region were martyred in this terrorist attack,” it added.
Forces from the Quds force – the Guards’ foreign operations wing – killed one of the attackers and wounded two, while others fled back into Paki
stani territory, the statement said.
The insurgent group was not identi
fied, but for years the region has been the
site of frequent attacks by the Jaish al-Adl group, which Tehran says has links to Al-Qaeda and is based in the Paki
stani province of Balochistan. Jaish al-Adl was blamed for an attack in April that killed 10 Iranian border guards in the nearby Mirjaveh region. President Hassan Rouhani wrote to Pakistan Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif calling for greater efforts to prevent insurgent attacks along the border.
The Guards also said on June 19 that
they had killed the leader and four members of another group called Ansar al-Furqan in the Iranian port city of Chabahar in Sistan-Baluchis
tan province.
Published in Daily Times, July 17th , 2017.