State media said that on Friday, gunmen opened fire and threw Molotov cocktails at a police station in the Sistan-Baluchestan province of Iran.
The official TV said that “a number of police officers as well as bystanders had been hurt in the exchange of fire” in the provincial capital of Zahedan.
Attacks or battles between security forces and armed groups in the province, which borders Pakistan and Afghanistan, sometimes include smuggling gangs as well as separatist or extremist organisations.
The same province’s border crossing with Afghanistan was the scene of the death of an Iranian border guard in June, according to the country’s foreign ministry at the time.
The Islamic Republic has been shaken by protests since Mahsa Amini, a 22-year-old Kurdish woman, died while in the morality police’s care.
On September 16, Amini was declared dead, three days after she had reportedly broken the rigorous dress code of the nation.
