Death toll in Pakistan strikes on Iran rises to nine: state media

The death toll from Pakistan strikes on a border region in Iran‍‍`s southeast rose to nine, state media reported on Thursday, up from seven earlier.

"Two men were also killed in the missile attack this morning in one of the border villages of Saravan, bringing the death toll to nine," the official IRNA news agency said quoting Alireza Marhamati, deputy provincial governor of Iran‍‍`s Sistan-Baluchistan province.