Suicide attack on Iran's Revolutionary Guards killed 27 people- Tasnim news agency

Suicide attack on Iran's Revolutionary Guards killed 27 people- Tasnim news agency

Twenty seven members of Iran's elite Revolutionary Guards were killed in a suicide attack in southeast Iran on Wednesday, the Tasnim news agency reported.

A suicide car bomb targeted a bus transporting the force, the Guards said in a statement.

Jaish al-Adl (Army of Justice), a Sunni militant group, claimed responsibility for the attack, according to the Fars news agency. (Reporting By Babak Dehghanpisheh; Editing by Toby Chopra)

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