In an armed confrontation in Iranian southern province of Kerman, nine drug traffickers were killed by Iranian soldiers, Fars news agency reported on Tuesday.
The report, which quoted a military news release in Kerman, said in the confrontation, the soldiers succeeded in blowing up a land cruiser which was carrying the nine traffickers, some gallons of gasoline and weapons.
The report said the soldiers got the information in an intelligence operation earlier that a group of the armed bandits would pass through a desert area in Kerman province.
Iran's security forces often clash with drugs-smuggling armed groups in Kerman and its neighboring Sistan-Baluchestan province, which have been hit by a string of attacks and kidnappings in the past years.
Iranian authorities blamed a Sunni group called Jundallah for the accidents and repeatedly accused the United States and Britain of supporting the armed bandits and trying to make convulsions in the country's bordering areas.
Source:Xinhua
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