| Submit your comments on this article | |
| Syria-Lebanon-Iran | |
| Bandits execute 12 people in Iran | |
| 2006-05-15 | |
| Bandits disguised as policemen executed 12 bound men by a southern Iranian roadside and strung a wounded 12-year-old boy from an electricity pylon, state media reported on Sunday. The killings happened on the desert road between the southern cities of Kerman and Bam. Brutal bandit attacks are rare so far from IranÂ’s lawless borders, but common along the Afghan and Pakistani frontier. The motive for the killings was unclear but the murders raised concerns about the safety of a road often used by tourists visiting historical sites in Kerman province. KermanÂ’s provincial Governor Abdolmohammad Raoufinejad was quoted by state television saying four cars, later found burned out, had been held up at gunpoint at 9 p.m. on Saturday night, 35 km (22 miles) west of Bam. Eight attackers bound and blindfolded their victims before shooting them in the head, television reported. Eleven of the corpses were flung into a ditch. One man later died of his injuries in hospital. Two people escaped with injuries, television reported. It was not immediately clear if the boy strung to the pylon survived. Raoufinejad said the gunmen were wearing police uniforms. Provincial officials in Kerman were not immediately available to comment about a motive for the attack. Regional police were also unavailable for comment. Most banditry in Iran is associated with heavily armed drug traffickers. The main thoroughfare for transporting Afghan opium to Europe passes through Bam. However, most drug-running violence happens in the southeastern border province of Sistan-Baluchistan, which neighbours Kerman province.
| |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #1 These predominantly Hanafi Sunni "banditos" [think Baloch] wear turbans and flop house beards, the reason I can type this with some certainty is that they have a publicity agent who is posting rather gruesome vids on the 'net. Ethno-Religious MAP modest Iran country map |
| Posted by: RD 2006-05-15 01:37 |
