Jaish al-Adl ‘abducts’ 14 Iranian security personnel

Jaish al-Adl ‘abducts’ 14 Iranian security personnel
Fourteen Iranian border guards were kidnapped on the border with Pakistan on Tuesday. (File/AFP)
Updated 16 October 2018
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Jaish al-Adl ‘abducts’ 14 Iranian security personnel

Jaish al-Adl ‘abducts’ 14 Iranian security personnel
  • 14 personnel, including members of the Revolutionary Guards, were “abducted” on Tuesday
  • Jaish al-Adl (Army of Justice), a militant group, is active in Iran

ISLAMABAD: Jaish al-Adl, an Iranian militant group, in a message to media, on Tuesday, claimed the responsibility of abducting 14 Iranian security personnel.

The group claimed “it completely disarmed a security base of the ‘criminal forces’ in the Mirawa area on 16 Oct., 2018.”
Earlier on Tuesday, the media reports suggested that the abducted Iranian security force personnel comprised members of the Revolutionary Guards, and intelligence officials were “kidnapped” by the group near the border with Pakistan.
Jaish al-Adl (Army of Justice), a Sunni militant group, is active in Sistan-Balochistan province of Iran, which borders Pakistan’s Balochistan province.
The militant group has been carrying out a spate of attacks on the Iranian security forces.