IRAN. MAN HANGED FOR BANK RAID MURDERS
Ali Sookhtezadeh was hanged in public in Ahvaz, south-western Iran, for murdering five people during a bank robbery.
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Ali Sookhtezadeh was hanged in public in Ahvaz, south-western Iran, for murdering five people during a bank robbery. Sookhtezadeh, 31, was convicted of killing four bank clerks and a salesman in a store next to the bank in Ahvaz, Khoozestan province, in March 2004.
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- (Sources: Agence France Presse, 15/03/2005)
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