Five people were killed and 13 others injured during an “terrorist attack” on a judiciary centre in Zahedan, a city in southeastern Iran, on Saturday, news agency AFP reported, quoting state media.The attackers were later killed by security forces, according to Iranian state media.Among those killed were five civilians and three assailants when gunmen struck a judiciary building, as per the AFP report.“Unknown gunmen attacked the judiciary centre in Zahedan,” the capital of southeastern Sistan Baluchistan province, the judiciary’s Mizan Online said as quoted by AFP. “Five people have been killed and 13 injured in this terrorist attack,” it added. Separately, the official IRNA news agency reported that three of the attackers were killed during the assault.The attackers tried to enter the building disguised as visitors, Alireza Daliri, deputy police commander of Sistan-Baluchistan province, was quoted as saying by the news agency AFP. According to Iranian media, as cited by AFP, Jaish al-Adl (Arabic for “Army of Justice”), a Baloch jihadist group based in Pakistan but also active in Iran, claimed responsibility for the attack.
