Does anyone know the background to this story?
This headline is from a Pakistani site. I know in October there was similar firing.
The flare up at Pakistan’s other border - Pakistan - DAWN.COM
Why is Iran allowed to fire rockets which go into Pakistani territory and injure civilians?
December 30th Three Iran troops killed near Pakistan border - thenews.com.pk
Tuesday, December 30, 2014
From Print Edition
**TEHRAN: Three Iranian soldiers have been killed in an ambush by rebels who then fled over the nearby Pakistani border, a senior official said on Monday.
The ambush took place in the restive southeastern province of Sistan-Balochestan, where militants have carried out repeated attacks against the security forces of Iran.
“Terrorists carried out an ambush against a military patrol and, after killing three Revolutionary Guards, fled into nearby Pakistan,” the province’s deputy governor Ali Asghar Mirshekari told the official IRNA news agency.
A military official cited by the Fars news agency said that the rebel attack took place in the Saravan region on Sunday afternoon and that the dead included a colonel he identified as Akbar Abdollahnejad. In October, three security forces members were killed in an attack blamed on rebels in Saravan.
An Iranian soldier was also killed in a September attack on a border post there.Iran accuses members of the militant group Jaish-ul Adl (Army of Justice) of carrying out frequent raids.The group captured five Iranian troops in February, four of whom were released in April. The fifth soldier is presumed dead but his fate remains officially unknown. INP adds: Meanwhile officials in Quetta said Iranian border guards fired dozens of rockets in Balochistan’s Kech district on Sunday night.
Levies sources said that Iranian border guards fired 42 rockets in Kech’s Zamuran area, located close to the border. They said the rockets landed at a village in Zamuran and injured seven Pakistani civilians.
“The injured persons were rushed to District Hospital Turbat for treatment,” Levies sources said. Separately, Levies sources said that armed men had attacked a checkpost in Koh-e-Sor inside Iranian territory and killed three Iranian officials on Sunday evening.
Panic prevailed among people as Iranian border guards continued to fire rockets inside Pakistani territory the entire night.Levies and Frontier Corps (FC) personnel rushed to the area to defend the border. When FC and Levies personnel reached the border, Iranian border guards stopped firing rockets, Levies sources added. Iran has alleged that the assailants who attacked the Iranian checkpost sneaked inside Pakistan. Pakistani officials vehemently deny the allegation.
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