TEHRAN —
Gunmen killed the bodyguard of a general from
Iran’s Revolutionary Guards on
Saturday in an attack on a checkpoint in the country’s restive southeast, state
media said.
اضافة اعلان
IRNA news agency
said the shooting occurred in Sistan-Baluchistan, a province bordering Pakistan
and
Afghanistan that is often the scene of attacks or clashes between security
forces and armed groups.
The slain
bodyguard was identified as Mahmoud Absalan, the son of General Parviz Absalan,
a commander of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps in the region.
State television
said “criminals” had opened fire at the checkpoint, located at the entrance to
the provincial capital of Zahedan.
IRNA said the
security forces arrested those behind the attack.
Poverty-stricken
Sistan-Baluchistan is a flashpoint for clashes with smuggling gangs, as well as
separatists from the Baluchi minority and extremist militant groups.
In January,
state media said three Guard members were among nine people killed in a clash
with “armed criminals” in the same region.
And in November,
IRNA said three members of the security forces were killed in similar
circumstances also in Sistan-Baluchistan.
Saturday’s deadly
shooting comes two days after Iran announced the arrest in
Sistan-Baluchistan
of three people it said were linked to Israel’s Mossad spy agency.
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