State media: Iran kills 4 IS-linked gunmen

TEHRAN, Iran – Iran’s official IRNA news agency is reporting that police have killed four Islamic State group-linked gunmen in the country’s south.

The Monday report quotes the chief of police of Hormozgan province, Gen. Azizollah Maleki, as saying his forces killed the gunmen Sunday in a shootout near the town of Roudan, 1,200 kilometres (745 miles) southeast of Tehran.

Maleki said police confiscated an IS flag and four machine-guns, bullets and some explosives. He added that two of the four were foreigners. He did not elaborate.

Five IS-linked attackers stormed Iran’s parliament and a shrine to revolutionary leader Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini on Wednesday, setting off clashes with security forces and killing at least 17 people and injuring more than 50.