Eight Iranian guards killed at Pakistani border
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Eight Iranian border guards were killed by militants in a cross-border raid on the frontier with Pakistan on Monday, according to reports in the Iranian media.
Sistan-Baluchestan province in southeast Iran has long been plagued by unrest from both drug smuggling gangs and separatist militants. The population of the province is predominantly Sunni Muslim while the majority of Iranians are Shi'ites.
"The armed terrorists entered Iranian soil from Pakistani soil and clashed with the guards," Ali Asghar Mirshekari, the deputy governor of the province, told the IRNA news agency.
"They killed eight members of the border guards and fled to Pakistani soil."
