Iran Suicide Bombing 'Kills 20 Revolutionary Guards'

Iran Suicide Bombing 'Kills 20 Revolutionary Guards'

At least twenty Revolutionary Guards are killed during a suicide bomb attack in south-eastern Iran, state media say.

The bomber targeted a bus transporting personnel on the Khash-Zahedan road in Sistan-Baluchestan province, near the border with Pakistan.

Another twenty Guards were wounded within the attack, the official Irna press agency cited an "informed source" as saying.

The Sunni Muslim militant group, Jaish al-Adl (Army of Justice), has said it was behind the bombing.

Jaish al-Adl took up arms in 2012 to fight for what it says are the rights of Iranian Sunnis, who complain of discrimination by the Shia establishment.

The group has administered many recent attacks against security personnel in Sistan-Baluchestan, that includes a massive mainly Sunni ethnic Baluchi community.