3 IRGC personnel martyred in southeastern Iran

Three members of the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) were martyred in Iran’s southeastern province of Sistan and Balouchestan on Wednesday, after their vehicle was detonated by a booby trap bomb planted by bandits and drug traffickers.

According to Tasnim news agency, a provincial security official said the deadly incident took place at 6:30 am local time on Wednesday, December 18, near the southeastern city of Saravan.

The official said the three victims were members of the IRGC engineering division working on construction projects in the border area.

The vehicle carrying the IRGC staffers left a workshop this morning, but was later detonated by a booby trap bomb on the road.

According to the public relations office of IRGC’s Quds Base, the engineers were involved in a project to seal part of Iran-Pakistan border in the frontier region of Saravan and that their car hit explosives left by bandits and traffickers on the road.

Earlier on October 25, a group of armed men carried out an ambush attack on a border post in Gazbostan, near Iran’s southeastern city of Saravan, on the border with Pakistan which has almost no control over its side of the shared frontier with Iran, martyring 14 Iranian border guards.

On November 17, Iran’s interior minister said precise and serious border control in the southeastern province of Sistan and Balouchestan was of utmost importance, adding that in the next six months those parts of the border which are still not sealed will be blocked to illegal crossings.