Overview

• Armed assailants wearing explosive vests stormed the Zahedan judicial building on July 26 and hurled a grenade into the courtroom.
• Six people were killed—including three security personnel, a one-year-old child and the child’s mother—and 22 others were wounded.
• Provincial justice head Ali Mohavedi Rad said security forces shot dead all three attackers before they could fully detonate their vests.
• State media report that Sunni jihadist group Jaish al Adl, which operates from Pakistan and has struck in the region before, claimed responsibility for the assault.
• The incident underscores persistent sectarian tensions and security vulnerabilities in the economically marginalized Sistan and Baluchestan province along the Pakistan and Afghanistan borders.