Pakistani air strikes in Iran have killed nine people in a border region in the Islamic republic’s southeast on Thursday, according to state media reports. This is an update on the earlier toll of seven dead previously reported.
The official IRNA news agency revealed that two men were also killed in the missile attack this morning in one of the border villages of Saravan, bringing the death toll to nine.
Earlier, Marhamati said that three women and four children were killed in the strikes.
The Pakistani government said that it had on Thursday, launched “a series of highly coordinated and specifically aimed precision military strikes against terrorist hideouts” in Iran’s province of Sistan-Baluchistan.
Iran’s Interior Minister Ahmad Vahidi had on his part, said that all the dead “were foreign nationals”, in a televised interview.
Iran’s Fars news agency stated (without citing any source), that those who were murdered were “believed to be Pakistani nationals.”
The Interior Minister also condemned the strikes, and summoned Pakistan’s charge d’affaire “to protest and request an explanation from the Pakistani government,” according to a statement by the foreign ministry spokesman, Nasser Kanani.
The attack took place two days after Iran carried out strikes against “terrorist” targets in Pakistan which left at least two kids dead.
