Iran police kills five fighters of Jaish ul-Adl terrorist group

Tehran, Iran, June 13

By Mehdi Sepahvand - Trend:

Five members of the Jaish ul-Adl terrorist group have been killed by Iranian police, Tasnim news agency reported June 13.

The group were about to carry out terrorist acts inside Iran, police spokesman Said Montazerolmahdi said.

He said the terrorists were killed during a shootout in Khash city of Sistan-Baluchestan Province in southeastern Iran.

The spokesman added that the police found the terrorists had been carrying huge amounts of explosives.

During the shootout wit the terrorists, one Iranian policeman was killed.

Jaish-ul-Adl, known to many as the army of justice in reference to its Arabic name, was formed out of the so-called Jundollah, another terrorist group dismantled by Iranian intelligence forces on February 23, 2010 after its leader, Abdolmalek Rigi, was arrested onboard a flight from the UAE's Dubai to Kyrgyzstan's Bishkek.

Jaish-ul-Adl has claimed responsibility for a number of criminal activities in Pakistan and Iran in recent years.

On February 6, 2014, the terror group abducted 5 Iranian border guards in the Jakigour region of Iran's southeastern province of Sistan-Baluchestan and took them to Pakistan.

On March 23, the terror group claimed that it had killed one of the hostages named Jamshid Danaeifar. The other four were freed and reunited with their families two months after the abduction.

On October 25, 2013, Jaish-ul-Adl killed 14 Iranian border guards and wounded six other in the border region near the city of Saravan in Sistan-Baluchestan.