RASC: Mohammad Reza Hasani, a 15-year-old teenager who was killed by Iranian border guards in Nimroz province earlier this week along with four other Afghanistani migrants, was buried in Kabul on Wednesday.
Relatives of Mohammad Reza said that he was a school student and was killed by two bullets.
Sources in Nimroz province confirmed that five Afghanistani immigrants who were killed by border guards of the Islamic Republic of Iran on the border of this country on July 1, were from the Hazara tribe, and a woman was also among the dead.
Relatives of Mohammad Reza said that he wanted to go to Iran illegally for work.
Sources in Nimroz province said that 25 Afghanistani citizens were going to the Iranian border when they were shot by the border guards of the Islamic Republic of Iran.
In this shooting, one person was injured and the rest ran away.
According to the sources, border guards of the Islamic Republic of Iran shot these citizens near the border wall in Firuza area of Zaranj city.
According to Mohammad Reza’s relatives, he was a school student born in Maidan Wardak province and lived in Sarjangal district of Ghor province.
His relatives said that his body was first transferred from the border to Nimroz hospital and then to Kabul on July 4, and was buried in a cemetery west of Kabul on Wednesday.
Following the publication of the news of the killing of these citizens, on Monday, July 3, the authorities of the Islamic Republic denied the killing of five Afghanistani citizens by Iranian border guards in Nimroz province.
In an interview with the Tasnim news agency, a media outlet close to the Islamic Republic of Iran’s Revolutionary Guards, Da Shirawzhan, the cultural and social deputy of Iran’s Border Guard Command, said:
“In the past few days, there have been no armed clashes between the border guard forces of the Islamic Republic of Iran and the border aggressors in the area of the common border between the Islamic Republic of Iran and Afghanistan.” It hasn’t happened.”
Following this incident, the officials of a border unit of the Taliban group told the media that these people wanted to smuggle to Iran, but the Iranian border guards shot at them.
