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'12 Afghans killed near Iran border'
Twelve Afghan nationals have been killed in an ambush near Iran's border while entering the country from Afghanistan, an Afghan police official claims. Colonel Rahmatullah Safi, an Afghan border police commander said on Wednesday that the ambush has happened some 25 kilometers inside Iran Monday night, DPA reported. "We don't know who killed these people," Safi said, adding: "There are two possibilities - that they were either killed by Iranian border police or by enemies of both our countries." He also could not say who the dead Afghans were or why they were crossing the border during the night. "We cannot investigate inside their country, so since Iran is our friendly neighbor we ask them to investigate the matter and provide us with more information," Safi said. Insecurity and high unemployment rate in Afghanistan lures thousands of Afghans into risking their lives by trying to travel to Iran illegally. Posted by: Fred 2008-04-11 |
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