At least three security personnel including the deputy of a police station have been killed in "terrorist attacks" in southern Iran, state media reported Thursday.
"Three security members have been martyred in several night-time terrorist attacks on military stations in the cities of Rask and Chabahar" in Sistan-Baluchistan province, Alireza Marhamati, deputy governor of the province, told state TV.
"In one of the attacks on police station number 11 of the city of Chabahar, deputy of the station Abbas Mir, was martyred," state broadcaster IRIB said adding that a number of assailants were also killed or injured.
It also said that the Jaish al-Adl group, which was formed in 2012 and is blacklisted by Iran as a "terrorist" group, claimed responsibility for the attacks.
Dozens of videos were shared online of the clashes. The New Arab could not verify them.
Intense fighting continue around three hours after Baluchi militants attacked IRGC bases and police in two towns (Rask and Chabahar) in southeastern #Iran pic.twitter.com/fWbhh0Uslz
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Sistan-Baluchistan province, which borders Afghanistan and Pakistan, has for years faced unrest involving drug-smuggling gangs, rebels from the Baluchi minority, and Islamist extremists.
In July last year, two policemen and four assailants were killed in an attack on another police station in Zahedan, the province's capital.
