Iranian military kills 5 members of PKK offshoot

By Mustafa Malih

TEHRAN

Iranian Revolutionary Guards have killed five members of the PJAK group, an offshoot of the terrorist PKK organization, in northwestern Iran, according to a Monday statement.

"A five-member terrorist cell affiliated to PJAK was liquidated in Iran’s northwestern Sardasht region," the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) said in a statement issued Monday.

According to the IRGC, two of the slain terrorists had been responsible for the killing of two Iranian Basij paramilitary personnel and an engineer last month.

A PKK offshoot, the PJAK sporadically carries out hit-and-run attacks on Iranian targets, after which they retreat to their lairs in Iraq and Turkey.