(Ahlul Bayt News Agency) - Five Iranian security forces have been killed when their vehicle was ambushed by members of the terrorist group of the Party for Free Life of Kurdistan (PJAK) in northwest Iran, an official says.
The governor of the northwestern city of Maku told Fars news agency on Tuesday that the ambush took place near Turkey's border in Chaldoran region in West Azarbaijan province on Monday.
Hamid Ahmadian said that the bodies of the Iranian security forces have been laid to rest in Maku.
Earlier in the day, a spokesman of Iraq's Kurdistan Regional Government decried the illegal activities of PJAK terrorist group on Iraqi soil.
General Jabbar Yawar said, “We have repeatedly said that Kurdistan's soil should not be used by any group or country against our neighbors.”
On July 17, Iran's Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) disbanded a terrorist cell linked to the PJAK, killing at least five members of the group.
During another operation on July 25, IRGC forces killed 35 members of the terrorist group, and captured some of the PJAK members.
Iran has recently deployed 5,000 military forces in the northwest of the country along its common border with the Iraqi Kurdistan region.
Members of the terrorist PJAK group -- an offshoot of the Kurdistan Workers' Party -- regularly engage in armed clashes with Iranian security forces along the country's western borders with Iraq's semi-autonomous Kurdistan region.
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9 September 2011 - 19:30
News ID: 258744
Five Iranian security forces have been killed when their vehicle was ambushed by members of the terrorist group of the Party for Free Life of Kurdistan (PJAK) in northwest Iran, an official says.
