26-07-2025
Six killed in attack on court building in south-east Iran
Six people, including a woman and a child, were killed in an attack on the Zahedan Judicial Centre in Iran's south-eastern Sistan-Baluchestan province, Iranian state news agency Irna reported on Saturday.
Twenty-two other people were injured, it said, citing the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) Ground Forces.
The attack was carried out by unknown gunmen, the judiciary's Mizan Online outlet said.
The armed assailants opened fire inside the building in Azadi Street in Zahedan, the semi-official Tasnim news agency said.
"The condition of a number of the injured has been declared critical," Irna reported.
State media referred to the assailants as "terrorists" and said they were carrying explosive vests. The attackers were killed during the incident, Irna added.
The Baloch militant group Jaish Al Adl claimed responsibility for the attack, Tasnim reported.
Jaish Al Adl wants independence for Iran 's eastern Sistan and Pakistan's south-western Balochistan provinces.
The Sistan-Baluchestan province, bordering Afghanistan and Pakistan, has been the site of occasional deadly clashes involving militant groups, armed drug smugglers and Iranian security forces.
In October, an attack on an Iranian police convoy in the province killed at least 10 officers.
The head of Zahedan University of Medical Sciences, Dr Mohammad Hassan Mohammadi, said emergency services responded to the incident and carried out "diagnostic and surgical procedures" on the wounded.
Visitors were evacuated, Tasnim reported.
