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TEHRAN, Nov 20 (AFP) - 16h25 - Iran's
northwestern city of Mahabad, an historic centre of
Kurdish nationalism, has been hit by unrest
following the police shooting of a local man, the
official news agency IRNA said Sunday.
Police were quoted as saying the unnamed man was
killed after assaulting officers with a knife and
injuring one of them. The motive of the attack was
unclear and the scale of the subsequent "unrest" was
not detailed.
IRNA said calm was restored on the outskirts of
Mahabad on Sunday afternoon, but did not say when
the unrest started.
Several major clashes around Mahabad were reported
in July, with that unrest also sparked by a police
shooting of a suspect.
Still a Kurdish-majority town, Mahabad is situated
just south of Lake Urumiyeh, near Iran's border with
Turkey and around 55 kilometres (35 miles) from the
frontier with the autonomous Kurdish region of
northern Iraq.
AFP
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