TEHRAN: Two Iranian civilians were killed in a cross-border attack by ‘Pakistani insurgents’, the Revolutionary Guards said.

“On Saturday evening, a terrorist team... fired (ammunition) from within Pakistani territory toward the Iranian border region of Saravan” in Sistan-Balochistan province, the Guards said in a statement on their Sepahnews website.

“Two local workers in the region were martyred in this terrorist attack,” it added.

Forces from the Quds force — the Guards’ foreign operations wing — killed one of the attackers and wounded two, while others fled back into Pakistani territory, the statement said. The insurgent group was not identified.—AFP