Iranian police kill 10 'bandits' near Afghan border

"On Saturday evening, some armed bandits and agents who were trying to enter the country and create insecurity were spotted by... border troops," a police commander, Eskandar Momeni, was quoted as saying in the report late Sunday.

Momeni said the raiders were killed and that weapons, drugs and a satellite telephone seized.

The incident followed an ambush by Afghan bandits close to another border area on Thursday in which at least 22 people were killed and another 12 reported missing.