TEHRAN, Jul 2 (NNN-IRNA) – An Iranian police officer was killed and two others injured yesterday, in an operation to arrest a suspect, in the south-eastern Iranian province of Kerman, the semi-official news agency, Young Journalists Club, reported.
The police officers were shot at, when they showed up with an arrest warrant at the door of a wanted person, said the report, citing Baft County’s Governor, Farhad Arasteh, as saying.
The “criminal” opened fire on the officers while answering the door, he said, identifying the killed officer as Javad Karimi.
The two wounded officers were sent to hospital, he added.
Abdol-Ali Ravanbakhsh, the deputy police chief for Kerman province, told the semi-official Tasnim news agency that, the suspect fled the scene, adding, further investigations into the case were underway.
Baft County’s prosecutor, Enaiatollah Dehqani, said, the suspect had criminal records and used a Klashinkov rifle to kill the officer.– NNN-IRNA
