Saturday, February 11, 2012
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Police-rebels clash leaves 20 dead in Iran
TEHRAN (AFP) - Twenty people were killed in clashes between rebels and Iranian police in the Kurdish-majority western province of Kermanshah, state television reported on Saturday.
Yesterday (Friday) evening, some armed bandits attacked Ravansar-Paveh police station, killing 10 members of Irans law enforcement forces, it quoted a police statement as saying. Ten bandits were also killed in the fighting, the statement added, without identifying the attackers.
The area has witnessed a series of deadly clashes in recent years between the Iranian security forces and the rebel Party of Free Life of Kurdistan (PJAK).
Operating out of rear-bases in neighbouring Iraq, the group is closely allied with the Turkish Kurdish rebel group, the Kurdistan Workers Party.
Iraq, Iran, Syria and Turkey all have significant ethnic Kurdish minorities.
Yesterday (Friday) evening, some armed bandits attacked Ravansar-Paveh police station, killing 10 members of Irans law enforcement forces, it quoted a police statement as saying. Ten bandits were also killed in the fighting, the statement added, without identifying the attackers.
The area has witnessed a series of deadly clashes in recent years between the Iranian security forces and the rebel Party of Free Life of Kurdistan (PJAK).
Operating out of rear-bases in neighbouring Iraq, the group is closely allied with the Turkish Kurdish rebel group, the Kurdistan Workers Party.
Iraq, Iran, Syria and Turkey all have significant ethnic Kurdish minorities.
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