Khaberni - Three members of the police were killed on Wednesday in an attack targeting a security patrol in Sistan-Baluchestan province in southeast Iran.
The official agency "IRNA" reported on Wednesday morning that one officer was killed and three others were injured when "gunmen opened fire on a police patrol" in Zahedan.
The state television later reported that one of the injured died from their wounds, before the Fars agency announced hours later the killing of a third member.
Sistan-Baluchestan, stretching along a long border with Pakistan and Afghanistan, experiences frequent clashes between security forces and armed gunmen or smugglers.
This province is among the poorest in Iran, and is predominantly inhabited by a large percentage of the Sunni Muslim Baluch minority.
In July last year, gunmen attacked a courthouse in the provincial capital Zahedan, killing at least six people, in an attack claimed by the group "Jaish al-Adl," classified as a "terrorist organization" by the United States.
In one of the bloodiest attacks in the province, ten police officers were killed in October.
