TEHRAN —
An Iranian forest ranger whose death sentence for murder had been suspended was
gunned down on Saturday by a relative of the man he allegedly killed, official
sources said.
اضافة اعلان
Boroumand Najafi
was sentenced to death earlier this year after killing a man he thought was a
poacher in 2020 in western Iran’s Kermanshah region.
In April, the
judiciary suspended his death sentence and ordered a re-trial after an appeal
by the defense.
“Today Boroumand
Najafi was killed outside the court by three Kalashnikov bullets fired by the
victim’s father” following a hearing, Kermanshah prosecutor Shahram Karami said
on state television on Saturday.
“Shortly before
that, a relative of the victim attacked a prison guard accompanying Najafi with
an axe, wounding him in the hand.”
“The attacker and
his accomplice fled,” Karami added.
Iranian media
reports have said dozens of forest rangers have been killed by poachers in
recent years across the country.
In May, one person was
executed after being sentenced to death for killing two forest rangers in
Iran’s northwest in April last year.
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