DUBAI: At least one policeman was killed as unidentified gunmen and suicide bombers attacked a police station in Iran’s restive southeast on Saturday, Iranian state media reported.

The official news agency IRNA quoted a prosecutor in Zahedan, as saying that shooting continued at the police station.

State television said two attackers had detonated their explosive belts entrance of the station and a third had gone inside. “It is said that one or two policemen have been martyred,” a TV correspondent said.

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Alireza Marhemati, a top provincial security official, denied suicide bombers were involved. “They used grenades to enter and it was not a suicide operation,” he told state TV.