ERBIL, Kurdistan Region of Iraq - At least five people were killed and over a dozen more wounded in an armed attack by unknown assailants on the Zahedan judiciary building in Iran’s Balochistan on Saturday morning.

Iranian state media said that preliminary death toll from the “terrorist attack” stands at five people, adding that the toll will be reassessed.

“Based on initial reports, five people have been martyred and 13 injured in the terrorist attack on the Zahedan Judiciary,” the Judiciary’s media office said on Saturday.

Two of the deceased, according to IRGC-affiliated Mehr News, were a mother and her six-month-old baby.

The IRGC-affiliated outlet added that the Jaish al-Adl armed group, identified as a terrorist organization by Iran, claimed responsibility for the attack.

Footage shows security forces deployed during the Saturday morning attack on the Zahedan judiciary in Iran’s Balochistan pic.twitter.com/kc314XKRGR

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This is not the first such attack on Iran’s judicial system.

An Iranian judge was stabbed to death in the southern Iranian city of Shiraz in May. The 38-year-old Ehsum Bagheri had previously served as prosecutor in the country’s revolutionary court.

Months earlier and in January, an armed man shot two prominent hardliner judges in the Iranian capital, before shooting himself too.

The two deceased judges were allegedly involved in campaigns of mass executions in the 1980s.