AMN / WEB DESK
At least 11 Iranian security personnel have been killed in an attack on a police station in the city of Rask on Friday.
State television reported that a number of assailants were also killed in the shootout that ensued with the security forces in the southeastern border province of Sistan-Baluchestan.
Iran’s Interior Ministry said, one of the terrorists has been captured alive. State media reported that a Sunni armed group, Jaish al-Adl claimed responsibility for the attack.
The attack was one of the deadliest in years in the region close to Iran’s border with Afghanistan and Pakistan.