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Sanandaj, Iran: Video of deadly gunfight emerges

Posted by Zand-Bon on Oct 13th, 2010 and filed under News, PLANET IRAN NEWS FOCUS, Photos, Video, video gallery. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0. You can leave a response or trackback to this entry

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October 12, 2010

Two gunmen at the right of the image

Footage recently posted on the Internet shows last week’s gunfight in front of a police station in Sanandaj, Iran, on Thursday, October 7, 2010.

The deadly battle left four security agents and a civilian dead, according to news sites. Five police officers and four civilians were injured in the attack, said Colonel Kazeminejad, deputy police chief of Kurdistan province.

The attack took place in front of the police station situated at the north end of Sanandaj’s Azadi Square, formerly known as Eghbal Square:

The police station, a prominent concrete and glass structure, can be seen from another angle in the image to the the right. The cameraman was most likely in the brown building to the east of the police station.

Two individuals opened fire on police officers outside the building late in the afternoon, the spokesman for the Kurdistan Human Rights Organization, Ejlal Ghavami, told BBC Persian, citing eyewitnesses. The gunmen can be seen clearly in the video posted on Unity4Iran’s YouTube channel:

Northwestern Iran has been wracked with violence in the past weeks. A during a military parade in Mahabad, West Azerbaijan province, on September 22. A security officer and a 4-year-old boy died in a , Kurdistan province, on September 20.

No group or individual has claimed responsibility for the attack. Some opposition groups have pointed the finger of blame at the regime’s security forces, accusing them of trying to unite the people against ‘counter-revolutionaries’ and attempting to justify the current crackdown in the country.

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