Two Iranian policemen killed in Kurdistan shootings

TEHRAN, March 25 (Reuters) – Two Iranian policemen were shot dead and three other people wounded in what authorities said on Friday were two “terrorist” attacks in Iran’s Kurdistan province near the border with Iraq, news agencies said.

The shootings occurred in the city of Sanandaj on Thursday night. The official news agency IRNA said assailants used Kalashnikov assault rifles in their attacks on police.

Ali-Reza Shahbazi, governor of Kurdistan province said the “terrorist acts” were aimed at “making the region insecure and stopping the course of investment and development”.

No group claimed responsibility for the attack.

Security forces in the west of Iran often clash with guerrillas from PJAK, an offshoot of the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK), which took up arms in 1984 for an autonomous homeland in southeast Turkey and shelters in Iraq’s northeastern border province

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