Ten Iranian border guards killed in attack near southeastern border


  • World
  • Saturday, 26 Oct 2024

DUBAI (Reuters) -Ten Iranian border guards were killed in an attack in restive southeastern Iran on Saturday, state media quoted the interior ministry as saying, in the latest clash with suspected Sunni Muslim militants.

The 10 were killed in an ambush in an area which borders Afghanistan and Pakistan and has long been the site of clashes between Iranian security forces and Sunni militants as well as drug traffickers.

(Reporting by Dubai newsroom; editing by William Maclean and Mark Heinrich)

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