Gunmen in northwestern Iran assassinate prosecutor

Source: ap

TEHRAN, Iran – Attackers gunned down an Iranian court prosecutor outside his home in the country's northwest, state media reported on Tuesday.

Two gunmen opened fire at Vali Hajgholizadeh, described as a prosecutor with an excellent anti-corruption record, outside his building late Monday in the town of Khoy, about 470 miles (780 kilometers) northwest of Tehran.
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Hajgholizadeh had a "brilliant record in battling land-grabbing, moral corruption, and counterrevolutionaries," the semiofficial Fars news agency quoted Ebrahim Mazraeli from the Khoy governor's office as saying.

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"Four arrested after Iran prosecutor assassinated

Four people have been arrested after an Iranian state prosecutor was shot dead outside his home in northern Iran.
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The Free Life Party of Kurdistan (PJAK), a Kurdish militant group based in Iraqi Kurdistan claimed it carried out the attack, local government official Fakhrali Nikbakht told the Mehr News agency."


bbc, http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/8467263.stm