Iran Says Three Border Guards Killed By 'terrorists'
Umer Jamshaid Published November 14, 2020 | 05:39 PM
Three Iranian border guards were killed and two others wounded in a firefight with "terrorists" in the northwest of the country, state news agency IRNA reported
Tehran, (APP - UrduPoint / Pakistan Point News - 14th Nov, 2020 ):Three Iranian border guards were killed and two others wounded in a firefight with "terrorists" in the northwest of the country, state news agency IRNA reported.
"Armed counter-revolutionary elements... started a firefight with a number of Urmia regiment's border guards in the afternoon," said West Azerbaijan province's border guard commander Yahya Hosseinkhani on Friday night.
It occurred in the vicinity of Tergever, some 16 kilometres (10 miles) from Iran's far northwestern border with Turkey.
Iran's West Azerbaijan province also borders Iraqi Kurdistan.
They "repelled the terrorists and prevented their infiltration" into Iran and caused "significant casualties" to them, he added.
Iran's Revolutionary Guards said in August that its forces killed three "terrorist" gunmen it claimed had links to the United States who tried to infiltrate its territory through the same province.
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