DUBAI (Reuters) - Sunni Islamist Baluch militants claimed responsibility for killing an Iranian public prosecutor in revenge for a decision to hang 16 prisoners following a cross-border attack by the group two weeks ago.
Iranian authorities said they had arrested several suspects in connection with Wednesday's killing of prosecutor Musa Nouri and his driver in what media described as "a hail of bullets" in the town of Zabol in southeast Iran, near to where the borders with Pakistan and Afghanistan meet.
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