JUST IN - Two members of Iran's Revolutionary Guards killed clearing explosives after Israel war
Two members of the IRGC were killed today while attempting to defuse explosives in an area of the country’s west hit by #Israel's strikes in #Iran last month, Iranian media reports. https://t.co/0etisGiXYr
Two members of Iran’s Revolutionary Guards were killed Sunday while attempting to defuse explosives in an area hit by Israeli strikes last month, Iranian media reported. https://t.co/spkzls606n
Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps said two of its members were killed on 6 July while removing unexploded ordnance in Khorramabad, the capital of Lorestan province. The men, identified as Ali Bazgir and Hossein Mousavi, were part of a clean-up team dealing with munitions left from last month’s 12-day conflict with Israel. The provincial public-relations office of the IRGC said the explosion occurred during a routine operation to secure areas hit by Israeli air strikes during the short war that began on 13 June. No information on the soldiers’ ranks was released. The incident highlights the continuing danger posed by unexploded munitions in western Iran weeks after active hostilities ceased. Neither Tehran nor Jerusalem has commented on the latest deaths, and the IRGC did not indicate whether additional clearance teams would be deployed to the region.