DUBAI, Oct 9 (Reuters) – A provincial police official was killed in a roadside bombing on Friday in southeastern Iran, the semi-official Fars news agency reported.
The police official had been travelling near Zahedan, capital of the impoverished Sistan-Baluchistan province, which borders Pakistan and Afghanistan and is a drug trafficking route. The incident follows clashes between security forces and armed groups including Sunni militants and separatists.
(Reporting by Dubai newsroom, Editing by Timothy Heritage)
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