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Gunmen attacked a vehicle carrying Iranian army personnel in the country's restive southeast, killing one person and injuring three others on Thursday, state media reported.

"A minibus transporting personnel from a division stationed along the Makran coast... came under armed attack this morning," in Sistan-Baluchistan province, the official IRNA news agency said.

The agency gave the dead man's name, but did not specify whether he was army personnel.

In a separate incident in the same province, "a police patrol while carrying out its mission... came under a terrorist attack by armed outlaws," provincial police said in a statement on Thursday carried by IRNA.

"Several terrorists were wounded and fled the scene... while a police officer was martyred," it added.

Sistan-Baluchistan, bordering Pakistan and Afghanistan, has long seen clashes between Iranian security forces and alleged insurgents and drug smugglers.

One of Iran's poorest provinces, it is home to a significant ethnic Baloch population, most of whom are practising Sunni Islam in a Shia-majority nation.