DUBAI (Reuters) - 3 iranian military personnel were killed in south-east Iran ahead of time Wed when the vehicle they were traveling in was struck by a wayside bomb, Iranian media aforesaid.
The according killings - almost about wherever the borders of iran, pakistan and Afghanistan meet - come at a time of heightened tension within the region as separatist Sunni Moslem militants intensify attacks on officially Muslim iran.
Heavily-armed drug smugglers are active within the region.
The 3 men were part of an engineering division of the Moslem Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) performing on construction projects close to town of Saravan, Tasnim news organization quoted an anon. provincial official as locution.
In early Gregorian calendar month gunmen shot dead a prosecutor and his driver within the town of Zabol, additionally within the border space, in reprisal for the hanging of 16 prisoners United Nations agency were defendant of being terrorists.
Days before that, militants killed 14 Iranian border guards in an attack close to Iran's frontier with pakistan. The antecedently very little legendary cluster Jaish ul-Adl aforesaid it had carried out the attack.
Following Iran's 2010 execution of the leader of the baluchi separatist Sunni cluster Jundollah, analysts say there has been a radicalization of armed insurgents within the majority Sunni region, with militants advocating a perceptibly additional al Qaeda-style international 'jihad' or holy war.
Rights teams have documented quite 400 executions in iran up to now in 2013. a minimum of one hundred twenty five of these have been carried out since the election of President Hassan Rouhani on June 14, Human Rights Watch aforesaid recently.
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