Iran Revolutionary Guards say they kill 6 'bandits' in restive area
Iran Revolutionary Guards say they kill 6 'bandits' in restive area
Iran's Revolutionary Guards announced that they had killed six, after clashes in the predominantly Sunni Muslim Sistan-Baluchistan province near the Pakistani and Afghan border.
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The Sistan-Baluchistan province has seen two days of clashes [Getty]
Iran's Revolutionary Guards killed six "armed bandits" in the country's southeast on Saturday, the elite force said on its website, in a second day of clashes in an impoverished and .
Three local members of the fighting alongside the Revolutionary Guards were killed in the clashes, the statement said.
The predominantly Sunni Muslim near the Pakistani and Afghan borders has long been plagued by unrest from both drug smuggling gangs and Sunni Islamist militants fighting the country's Shi’ite authorities.
Many of Iran’s Sunnis complain of discrimination, a charge denied by the state.
On Friday, Revolutionary Guards shot dead three men believed to have been involved in the killing of two Guards on 25 December, according to Iranian media.
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