At least five police officers were killed today in the southeast Iranwhen gunmen opened fire on two police patrols, Iranian media reported.

The Sunni jihadist jihadist organization Jaya al -Adal took responsibility for this attack that caused the deaths of at least five Iranian police officers, according to reports on the internet.

Unknown perpetrators ambushed two police patrols near the city IranSahrIn the Sistan-Baluchistan province, causing five members of the Security Services, the Fars news agency quoted the local police.

The operation was conducted for the “identification and identification” of the perpetrators, according to Fars, as no organization had taken responsibility for the attack until recently.

Later, the Sunni jihadist organization Jaya al -Adal, which has been designated a terrorist organization by Tehran, took responsibility, according to reports on the internet.

At the border of Pakistan and Afghanistan, the province of Sistan-Baluchistan is often a field of conflict between security forces and armed organizations, including drug dealers, Sunni fighters and separatists who say they are fighting for more rights and autonomy. Tehran blames some of them of linking foreign powers and involvement in cross -border smuggling and uprising.

This province has a large Sunni minority of velvehs in an Iran with a population in the majority of Shiite, and remains one of the poor regions in the country.

Police said police officers were patrolling routine when they were on fire.

Local media posted the photo of a bullet patrol perforated, with several bodies lying near.

Iran often reports deadly ambushes in this province aimed at police officers and members of the Revolutionary Guards, the Iranian ideological army.

The attack is reported after death last week by seven members of Ansar Al Furkan, which is also considered a terrorist organization by Tehran, who were killed during an attempted attack on security facilities, according to authorities.

The previous day, a police officer was killed in an attack, responsible for which Jaye al -Adal took over.