Halabja Police identified two Kurdish youths killed by IRGC

23:14 - 29 October 2018
Kurdistan Press Agency (Kurdpa): Two young Kurdish men, from the city of Sarpel Zahaw (Sarpol Zahab) were killed by direct shots from the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps’ (IRGC) forces in a border region between the city of Kirmashan (Kermanshah) in Iran and the city of Halabja, located in the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) in Iraq.

On Saturday, the 27th of October, Barzan Osman, the Halabja Police Spokesperson said to the press that they had found the dead bodies of two young persons in Awisar mountain resort, located in the region of Biyara in Halabja.

According to the identification of the bodies, Halabja police has announced the identities of those two young men as Balal Tahami, 19, son of Ahmad, and Ayoub Palani, 18, son of Hossein, both of whom were from Sarpel Zahaw.

Halabja police confirmed that these two young men had been killed by the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps’ (IRGC) forces in a border region between Iran and Iraq.

According to confirmed reports, Balal and Ayoub were both trying to cross the border region in order to find job in the KRG while they were shot dead by Iranian forces.