10-23-2009, 09:50 PM
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<b>Four Pakistanis slain in Iran Guard attack: report</b>
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->TEHRAN: Four Pakistani citizens were among those slain in the attack on Iran's elite Revolutionary Guards in Sistan-Baluchestan province, Fars news agency reported on Friday.
On Sunday, a suicide bomber blew himself up in Pisheen town during a meeting of Guards and local tribesmen, slaughtering more than 40 people, including 15 members of the Guards.
<b>The bomber struck in front of a local gymnasium where a handicraft exhibition was taking place in Pisheen, near the Pakistani border in the south-eastern province.
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'Four Pakistani citizens, who were near the handicraft exhibition, also died in the incident,' Jalal Sayyah, deputy governor of Sistan-Baluchestan told Fars.
He said investigations revealed that <b>the bomber wanted to go to the meeting, 'but fearing he would be searched... he blew himself up inside the exhibition.' The bomber had crossed into Iran from Pakistan a day before the attack </b>Sayyah said.
<b>'He was trained four months ago in one of (Abdolmalek) Rigi's bases in Pakistan,' </b>he added, referring to the leader of the rebel Jundallah (Soldiers of God) group which claimed the bombing.<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->
<b>Four Pakistanis slain in Iran Guard attack: report</b>
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->TEHRAN: Four Pakistani citizens were among those slain in the attack on Iran's elite Revolutionary Guards in Sistan-Baluchestan province, Fars news agency reported on Friday.
On Sunday, a suicide bomber blew himself up in Pisheen town during a meeting of Guards and local tribesmen, slaughtering more than 40 people, including 15 members of the Guards.
<b>The bomber struck in front of a local gymnasium where a handicraft exhibition was taking place in Pisheen, near the Pakistani border in the south-eastern province.
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'Four Pakistani citizens, who were near the handicraft exhibition, also died in the incident,' Jalal Sayyah, deputy governor of Sistan-Baluchestan told Fars.
He said investigations revealed that <b>the bomber wanted to go to the meeting, 'but fearing he would be searched... he blew himself up inside the exhibition.' The bomber had crossed into Iran from Pakistan a day before the attack </b>Sayyah said.
<b>'He was trained four months ago in one of (Abdolmalek) Rigi's bases in Pakistan,' </b>he added, referring to the leader of the rebel Jundallah (Soldiers of God) group which claimed the bombing.<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->