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Two killed in Kurdish riot- Kurdistan-Iran
8.8.2005
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TEHRAN: 8.Aug-
Two people have been killed, eight injured and 145
arrested in unrest among the Kurds of western Iran,
Iran's Interior Ministry said yesterday.
The deaths in the town of Saqqez followed rioting
and a gun battle elsewhere in Kurdish-dominated
territories.
The Interior Ministry Web site named the dead men in
Saqqez as Mohammad Shariati, a 55-year-old retired
teacher, and Farzad Mohammadi, 18.
It quoted an unnamed senior official as saying that
police had denied firing their pistols, but
investigators were looking into the type of shots
fired to work out what had happened.
"Public and state-owned buildings, including banks,
were damaged," the official said
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