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TEHRAN: A booby-trapped car blew up a bus owned by the Revolutionary Guards yesterday, killing at least 11 people, in a border city in southeastern Iran.
Jundollah (God's soldiers), a Sunni group that Iran has linked to Al Qaeda, claimed responsibility, an Iranian news agency and a Dubai-based TV channel said. The group has been blamed for past kidnappings and killings in the area.
A strike of such size, on an elite force in broad daylight and in an open street, is unprecedented in Iran.
But clerics were quick to urge Iranians, who are overwhelmingly Shi'ites, not to blame Sunnis for the incident.
Provincial governor Hassan Ali Nouri told the official Irna news agency that 11 staff members of the guards were killed and 31 injured in the blast in Zahedan city in Sistan-Baluchistan province, which is on the border with Pakistan and Afghanistan. The governor said one of those behind the blast was killed in the incident.
Irna earlier said 18 people were killed, while state TV and radio said the death toll was 11.
The bus was taking the guards from their housing compound in Zahedan to a military base just after daybreak when gunfire forced it to stop in front of the booby-trapped car.
Reports said four people were in the car which seemed to have broken down on the road. When the bus approached, the four fled on motorbikes and the car exploded.
"In the bombing this morning, 11 people were martyred in a thoughtless action," said local Guards commander Mohammad Javad Ethna Ashari, blaming bandits and outlawed groups opposed to the country.
"Five people have been arrested," an official in the governor's office of Zahedan said.
Dubai-based Al Arabiya television said a caller speaking for Jundollah said the group was behind the attack. Iran has said Jundollah was behind the murder of 12 people in a roadside attack in May, and other incidents.
An unverifiable website message attributed to Jundallah claimed the Zahedan bombing in revenge for the recent executions of those found guilty of Ahvaz attacks.
Bomb attacks in October 2005 killed six people in the provincial capital of Ahvaz and wounded nearly 100.
Hossein Ali Shahriyari, a deputy representing Zahedan, told an open session of parliament yesterday that "insurgents and drug traffickers" were behind the attack.
Shahriyari called lawless regions in southwestern Pakistan a safe haven for Iranian insurgents and drug traffickers, and called on the government to take up the issue with Islamabad.
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