IRGC Busts Terrorist Gang of Hostage-Takers in Sistan and Baluchestan
- The Islamic Revolution Guards Corps’ Quds Base said it located a kidnapping team in Kourin, Zahedan, after the group abducted a construction engineer.
- The IRGC said its forces launched an operation that freed the engineer and killed five members of the group.
- The IRGC reported that one of its servicemembers was killed during the clashes.
- A later report said another group member was killed, bringing the reported total to six.
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IRGC forces dismantle kidnapping cell in southeastern Iran
TEHRAN- Iran’s Islamic Revolution Guard Corps (IRGC) has dismantled an armed kidnapping cell linked to a terrorist group in Sistan-Baluchestan Province, rescuing an engineer abducted a day earlier and killing five members of the group, according to the IRGC’s Quds Headquarters.
IRGC kills terrorists, rescues kidnapped engineer in SE
TEHRAN, Oct. 13 (MNA) – The IRGC Ground Force servicemen dismantled a kidnapping team affiliated with the terrorist group Jaish al-Adl in southeastern Iran, killing five of its members and rescuing a kidnapped engineer.
Agency – Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) has reported the death of five people in an operation against a group of hostage takers in the south-eastern province of Sistan and Baluchistan. In the said operation, one IRGC member also died and a kidnapped engineer was rescued safely. IRGC issued a communiqué on Tuesday through its official news medium Pah News.
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