DUBAI, July 8 (Reuters) - At least one policeman was killed as unidentified gunmen and suicide bombers attacked a police station in Iran's restive southeast on Saturday, Iranian state media reported.
The official news agency IRNA quoted a prosecutor in Zahedan, capital of the Sistan-Baluchistan province, as saying that shooting continued at the police station.
State television said two attackers had detonated their explosive belts entrance of the station and a third had gone inside.
Alireza Marhemati, a top provincial security official, denied suicide bombers were involved.
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