Fire exchange on Afghan-Iran border leaves 2 dead: newspaper

Two border guards, one Afghan and one Iranian, were killed in a border exchange of fire, a state-run newspaper reported in Kabul on Saturday.

The exchange of fire between Iranian border guards and Afghan border police in Kushak district of Nimroze province of southern Afghanistan claimed the lives of one Afghan and one Iranian border guards on Friday night, Anis writes.

Officials in Nimroze province blamed the Iranian side for the incident, saying the Iranian side opened fire killing one Afghan police and wounding another.

The daily quoted Afghan Interior Ministry spokesman Zamarai Bashari as saying that the Afghan government through diplomat channel would contact Iran to prevent repeating such incident in future.

He also described the relations between Afghanistan and Iran as very friendly.

Source: Xinhua