What the records say
- When
- 2 Jan 2010
- Kind
- Shooting
- Killed
- 10
- Coordinates
- 32.87° N, 59.22° E
- Description
- shootout between Iranian police and drug smugglers
- Injured
- 4
Placed at the area, not an exact site.
2010 Khorasan shootout
Shootout between Iranian police and drug smugglers
The 2010 Khorasan shootout occurred on January 2, 2010, when Iranian police executing a drug raid were fired upon by drug smugglers near the Iran-Afghanistan border. At least 10 Iranian police were killed; 7 died at the scene and three more died later as a result of injuries sustained during the shooting.
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- Wikipedia year pages (English), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “At least seven Iranian police and two drug traffickers die in a shootout between Iranian police and drug traffickers in South Khorasan Province”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
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