A policeman was shot dead in western Iran on Tuesday, the Fars news agency reported, as 10-day-old protests against economic hardship spread and intensify.
“Ehsan Aghajani, a police officer from the western province of Ilam, was martyred hours ago after being directly hit by rioters’ bullet in the Malekshahi region,” it said.
Malekshahi is a district of 20,000 people, many of them from Iran’s Kurdish minority. Already on Saturday clashes cost the life of one security official.
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