Iran kills "ringleader" of lethal attack on police forces

4/11/2024 5:49

        Iran's police on Sunday killed the "ringleader" of a "terrorist" team behind a recent deadly attack on the country's law enforcement forces in the southeastern province of Sistan and Baluchestan, the semi-official Mehr news agency reported.
        "The terrorists' ringleader ... was identified in a complicated intelligence operation by the police's anti-terror unit and killed a few minutes ago," Iran's police spokesman Saeed Montazer al-Mahdi was quoted as saying by the report.
        Over the past 24 hours, al-Mahdi said, two other "terrorists" and six individuals who supported them in the attack were arrested.
        Iran's police said on Oct. 26 that 10 members of the country's law enforcement forces had been killed in a "terrorist" attack in Sistan and Baluchestan earlier in the day.
        The Jaish al-Zulm group, designated as a terrorist entity by Iran, claimed responsibility for the attack.