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KABUL – At least two Taliban border forces were reportedly injured in a fierce exchange of gunfire with Iranian border forces early Wednesday, Afghan media sources confirm. The altercation erupted when Iranian forces allegedly opened fire on Afghan smugglers attempting to cross the border into Iran.
No official statements have been released by either side regarding the incident along the Iran-Afghanistan border.
Meanwhile, a human rights organization, “Hal Wash,” shared a post on X (formerly Twitter), reporting that a Baloch man, Naem Reky, 26, was killed during the skirmish. Reky, the son of Abdul Qayyum from Khatam Gholjaei village in Sassoli, reportedly lost his life at the border’s zero point in Hirmand city.
The clash, which lasted about an hour, was captured in a video circulated on social media, where gunfire could be heard piercing the early morning silence.
This incident marks another escalation in the ongoing border tensions between the two nations.
