Tehran (HRNW) A man in northern Iran was shot dead by security forces while celebrating the Iranian national football team’s defeat against the US in the World Cup, a rights group said Wednesday.
Mehran Samak, 27, was killed after being shot in the head by security forces while at a gathering celebrating Iran’s loss and subsequent elimination from the World Cup in the city of Bandar Anzali, the Oslo-based rights group Iran Human Rights (IHR) said.
An Iranian judiciary official on Thursday confirmed Samak’s death, saying he died after being shot by birdshot following the US-Iran match.
“As soon as this suspicious incident happened, a court case was filed to deal with the issue and the prosecutor of Bandar Anzali is handling the case,” the semi-official ISNA news agency quoted the official as saying.