(Previous Incident Code: ISIR260330c )

On the afternoon of March 30, 2026 at least two workers, including a security guard named Erfan Jamaat Baloch were killed, and at least 11 other people were injured in an alleged Israeli and/or U.S. airstrike on a warehouse in the Chabahar Free Trade Industrial Zone in southeastern Iran. The names of the other victims were not found among local sources.

On March 30, balochistanhrdn posted a report to Instagram, announcing that “a number of workers of a rice packaging company were killed following the attack by US and Israeli warplanes on the Chabahar Free Zone.” The post went on to specify that “missiles hit trucks carrying cargo and workers, which led to the vehicles catching fire and exploding.” The source added: “A number of Baloch workers of the rice packaging company who were with the trucks lost their lives due to the intensity of the explosions.”

As Airwars was unable to determine the identities of the “workers” referenced here, the plural “workers” has been recorded as two, in line with Airwars methodology. As it is unclear whether Erfan is included among these “workers” the minimum number of fatalities in this incident has been recorded as two, and the maximum as three. This will be updated should additional information become available.

On March 31, Balouch Times (@balouchtimes) posted a video on Instagram with a caption stating that “at 16:00 yesterday afternoon, in the Chabahar Industrial Town, a warehouse storing essential goods (rice) was hit in a missile attack by the criminal United States and child-killing Israel. Following the attack, one security guard was killed and 11 workers were injured.” The video shows a damaged warehouse full of destroyed sacks of rice and features interviews with two people who explain that “fighter jets came toward the industrial area of Chabahar. At a warehouse where we were unloading a shipment of rice, the workers were busy at work. While the employees were working, they attacked, and one of our guards was killed. The cargo inside the warehouse was rice—people’s livelihood. They launched missiles here. There is no military base here, nothing at all. This place has no military purpose, no protection—nothing. These are workers, people earning their bread.”

On Telegram, Tasnim News reported that “warplanes of the [Israeli military] and the criminal America targeted the warehouse of basic goods for the people in Chabahar, in which one person was martyred and 11 people were injured in this cowardly attack.” The outlet named the victim as “Irfan [Erfan] Jamaat Baloch…a Sunni youth from the village of Buti Bala, a part of the Plan district of Chabahar city, who was responsible for guarding the warehouses. He was martyred in this attack and 12 workers who were unloading rice were injured.”

The Balochistan Human Rights Documentation Network also confirmed “the identity of the Baloch citizen who died in the US and Israeli airstrike” as “Erfan Jamaat Baloch, a guard at the rice packaging company and a resident of Chabahar.” The outlet also shared a photograph of a bearded Erfan wearing a black t-shirt.

On Instagram, an account called @gallery_tayefeh_soorizahi posted a video of Erfan’s funeral and attributed his death to “missiles of the criminal Israeli forces.” The clip shows a group of men carrying a coffin decorated with Erfan’s name and photo through a crowd of mourners.

Where sources identified the belligerent, all sources attributed the airstrike to Israeli and/or U.S. forces.