Iran army minibus attack kills one, state media says

Gunmen attacked a minibus carrying Iranian army personnel in Sistan-Baluchistan province on Thursday, killing one person and injuring three others, state media reported.

The official IRNA news agency said the minibus was transporting personnel from a division stationed along the Makran coast when it came under armed attack. IRNA named the person killed but did not say whether he was army personnel.

In a separate incident in the same province, provincial police said a police patrol came under what they called a terrorist attack by armed outlaws. Police said one officer was killed and several attackers were wounded and fled.

Sistan-Baluchistan borders Pakistan and Afghanistan and has long seen clashes between Iranian security forces and alleged insurgents and drug smugglers. The province is one of Iran's poorest and has a significant ethnic Baloch population, most of whom are Sunni Muslims in a Shia-majority country.