Kurds Claim Revenge for Attack, Kill Iranian
<i> Reuters</i>
BAGHDAD, Iraq —
Kurdish rebels said Tuesday that they ambushed and killed an Iranian Revolutionary Guards division commander who had burned alive Kurdish villagers.
A spokesman for the Kurdish Democratic Party of Iran said its guerrillas fired at an army car carrying the head of the Nabi-Akram guards division in northwest Iran, near the border with Iraq, on Oct. 11.
All the car’s occupants were killed, the spokesman said, although he did not say how many people were in the car.
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