Basij commander and police officer killed in Sistan and Balochistan Iranian media reported the killing of a Basij commander and a police officer in two separate attacks in Maharstan city of Sistan and Balochistan province on Wednesday, October 14. The "Tasnim" news agency reported that gunmen attacked a police vehicle in Harstan and during the conflict First Sergeant Muhammad Ali Shahriari was injured and died after being taken to the hospital. The attackers also fled the scene. In another attack, Afsana Akila, the Basij commander of the Shahida Afzal sisters in the city of Marzi Maharstan, was shot in front of his house and killed. With the death of Apsana Akila, the number of women from the Basij and the police who were killed in the recent attacks in Sistan and Balochistan reached two. Previously, on the 17th of Mahar, Nusrat Aftakhari, the cultural and social deputy of the Sistan and Balochistan Police Command, was killed in a roadside bomb explosion in the center of the Ziarat spring in Zahadan. In recent weeks, various areas of Sistan and Baluchistan province have seen an increase in armed conflicts and attacks on police bases and police patrol vehicles.