Police in Albania have raided a camp belonging to the so-called Mujahedin-e-Khalq Organization (MKO), an anti-Iran terrorist cult outfit, due to its involvement in “terror and cyber attacks” against foreign institutions.

Clashes erupted when police attacked the camp, known as Ashraf-3, in the northwest of the capital Tirana, on Tuesday.

Reports said one person was killed and dozens of others were injured in the clashes.

Albania’s Special Court Against Crime and Corruption authorized the authorities to carry out the operation due to concerns that the MKO had been involved in terror and cyber attacks, the interior ministry said in a statement. 

According to the MKO, about a thousand police officers attacked the camp “in a criminal and oppressive act.”

“Many broke doors, cupboards, belongings and attacked residents with tear gas and spray. Many computers are broken” the MKO said.

Police, however, said in a statement that “during the operation, the caused no casualties and did not use weapons under any circumstances.” 

The group urged the United States and the United Nations to condemn the attack on the camp.

The terrorist group’s members spent many years in Iraq, where they were hosted and armed by the former Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein. They sided with Saddam during the 1980-88 war against Iran and then helped him quell uprisings in various parts of the Arab country.

Albania started hosting the terrorists after the cult was shunned by the government of former Iraqi prime minister Nouri al-Maliki.

The European country is estimated to have been accommodating some 3,000 members of the terror cult since 2016.