A Kurdish rights group says at least four servicemen of Iran’s Revolutionary Guard have been killed in armed clashes with one of the Kurdish parties in northwestern Iran.

According to Hengaw on Friday, the skirmish took place between IRGC forces and fighters of the Kurdistan Workers' Party in areas between Senji and Mateh-Kharpeh villages near the town of Salmas in West Azarbaijan Province Thursday evening.

The report said at least another four IRGC members were injured in the clashes and taken to Hospital in Salmas but there is no mention of possible casualties on the Kurdish side.

Source: Iran International