11 killed, several injured in attack on Iran police station

A number of assailants were also killed in a shootout that ensued with the security forces, the channel reported.

"In the terrorist attack on the police headquarters in the town of Rask, 11 policemen were killed, and others were wounded," Alireza Marhamati, deputy governor of the province, told state TV.

The attack, which occurred around midnight, was one of the deadliest in years for the region lying close to Iran's border with Afghanistan and Pakistan.