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Iranian general fatally shoots himself in the head by accident

Iran-Iraq war veteran Ghodratollah Mansouri’s gun went off while he was cleaning it, Revolutionary Guard website says

By AP 16 December 2018, 11:45 pm 29 Edit
Members of Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) march during the annual military parade, marking the anniversary of the outbreak of the devastating 1980-1988 war with Saddam Hussein's Iraq, in the capital Tehran, on September 22, 2018. (AFP/STR)
Members of Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) march during the annual military parade, marking the anniversary of the outbreak of the devastating 1980-1988 war with Saddam Hussein's Iraq, in the capital Tehran, on September 22, 2018. (AFP/STR)

TEHRAN — The website of Iran’s Revolutionary Guard reported Sunday that a general who fought in Syria and Iraq had allegedly accidentally killed himself while cleaning a gun.

Gen. Ghodratollah Mansouri shot himself in the head by accident while cleaning his pistol, according to the Sunday report.

The report added that Mansouri was veteran of the 1980s Iran-Iraq war and a “defender of the shrine,” a reference to Iranians who fight against the extremist Islamic State group in Syria and Iraq.

Since 2014, Mansouri was a regional commander of the Guard’s ground forces in the northeastern city of Mashhad, some 900 kilometers (nearly 560 miles) east of the capital Tehran.Hundreds of Iranian forces have been killed fighting IS in Syria and Iraq.

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