Five Revolutionary Guards killed near Iraqi border

Iranian official says two more Guardsmen injured; ‘counterrevolutionary armed guerrillas’ blamed for attack near Kurdish town

By AP 11 October 2013, 12:42 am
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TEHRAN, Iran — An Iranian semi-official news agency reported Thursday that an armed group has killed five members of the elite Revolutionary Guards in a Kurdish area near the Iraqi border.

The report by Fars News Agency quotes an unnamed official as saying two other members of the Guards were wounded in the midday clash with “counterrevolutionary armed guerrillas” near the Kurdish town of Baneh, some 305 miles (488 km) west of Tehran.

The report did not name any group but the area is the scene of occasional clashes between government forces and rebels.

This was the most serious incident between the two sides since April 2012, when four troops from the Guards were killed in clashes with rebels in the Kurdish area.

Copyright 2013 The Associated Press.

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