TEHRAN, Nov. 4 (Xinhua) -- At least eight Iranian border guards were killed in the clashes on Friday night with the rebels in the country's northwestern Azerbaijan Province, Tehran Times daily reported on Saturday.
"At Least eight Iranian guards were killed in heavy clashes between Iran's border guards and a group of terrorists in the Chaldoran border area on Friday," said Alireza Radfar, the deputy governor general of the province was quoted as saying.
"The terrorists sustained heavy losses during the clashes which are still ongoing on the border with Turkey," the official said.
The Chaldoran border, around 860 km northwest of the capital Tehran, is near neighboring Turkey and Iraq's borders.
Northwest of Iran has been the scene of sporadic clashes between the Iranian Kurdish militants and the country's security forces over the past years.
