A suicide bomber killed the head of police intelligence in Iran‘s southern port city of Bandar Lengeh on Saturday, Iranian state media reported.
The unidentified bomber was also killed and another police officer was injured in the attack outside a police headquarters in the Gulf port city, the media reports said.
Tasnim news agency said the commander “was targeted” in the deadly attack.
“The attacker was also killed,” Tasnim said.
No group immediately claimed responsibility for the attack, a rarity in the province located about 1,000 kilometres south of Tehran.
In October, 10 police officers were killed in southeastern Iran in a “terrorist attack” in an area of southeastern Iran, Sistan-Baluchistan province, long plagued by unrest.
The Pakistan-based Sunni jihadist group Jaish al-Adl (Arabic for Army of Justice) claimed that attack.