Eight killed in Iran clashes – report

Tehran, Iran, Mar. 19 (Iran Focus) – Eight people were killed during a gun-battle with Iran’s paramilitary police in the eastern province of Khorassan Razavi, state television reported on Sunday.

The eight rebels were killed after armed clashes broke out in the border town of Taybad, the report quoted Brigadier General Radan, the commander of State Security Forces in the province, as having said.

Details were sketchy but the report said that the incident took place near the Sorkh well in the town and that all eight rebels who were involved in the clashes were killed.

They had entered to create “insecurity” and “trouble”, the report said, without identifying them further.