Unidentified gunmen have killed three Iranian police on patrol in the **rthwest of the country near the border with Iraq, the Mehr news agency reported on Wednesday. Tuesday night's attack comes after the authorities in Shiite-ruled Iran beefed up security along the frontier in response to a Sunni militant offensive that has captured swathes of Iraqi territory. The police were killed near the village of Taze-Abad, about 50 kilometres (30 miles) from the border with Iraq, said Mehr. An official familiar with the attack denied the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) carried out the attack, or that the jihadist group leading the offensive in Iraq had entered Iran.
06-25-2014, 07:16 PM
Iran police 'killed near Iraq frontier'
Unidentified gunmen have killed three Iranian police on patrol in the **rthwest of the country near the border with Iraq, the Mehr news agency reported on Wednesday. Tuesday night's attack comes after the authorities in Shiite-ruled Iran beefed up security along the frontier in response to a Sunni militant offensive that has captured swathes of Iraqi territory. The police were killed near the village of Taze-Abad, about 50 kilometres (30 miles) from the border with Iraq, said Mehr. An official familiar with the attack denied the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) carried out the attack, or that the jihadist group leading the offensive in Iraq had entered Iran.
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