TEHRAN (FNA)- Iranian officials carried out the death penalty verdict for 13 members of the Jundullah terrorist group this morning but the execution of Abdulhamid Rigi, the number two man of the group, was postponed.

""This morning the verdict for a number of Jundullah terrorist group members who were arrested previously was carried out in jail,"" General Director of Sistan and Balouchestan's provincial Judiciary Office Hojjatoleslam Ebrahim Hamidi told FNA on Tuesday.
Although the execution was due to be performed publically, Hamidi said, ""Their verdict was carried out in jail based on the latest decisions.""
He stressed that the verdict for Abdulhamid Rigi, the brother of the group's ringleader Abdolmalek Rigi, will be performed by the end of this week.
Also another member of the group who was sentenced to 5 years of imprisonment was transferred to the prison.
The executed members of the group were charged with militancy and armed struggle against the Islamic Republic, armed hostage-taking and massacre of innocent people in Tasouki and Darzin regions in Bam, central Iran.
Rigi, a well-known gang leader whose group has already staged several terrorist operations in southeastern Iran, has long been chased by the Iranian troops. In one of the worst cases, his group killed 22 citizens and abducted 7 more in Tasouki region on a road linking the capital city of Zahedan to another provincial town.