Zar Bibi Esmaeilzehi has passed away
The Baloch Activists Campaign has reported the death of Zar Bibi Sangin Esmaeilzehi, one of the injured from the Bloody Friday in Zahedan.
According to a previously released video interview with Zar Bibi Esmaeilzehi and her husband Amir Mohammad Barahouyi, Ms. Esmaeilzehi had come out of the house on Friday, 8th of Mehr, holding her young grandchild to calm him down, but during the security forces’ shooting in Zahedan, a bullet hit her shoulder. In the interview, she says, ‘I have this grievance that God may guide them; they shouldn’t have shot me. That afternoon, they shot so much above our heads that the bullets rained down like stones over us.’
Severe infection from bedsores has been cited as the cause of Ms. Esmaeilzehi’s death.
According to Baloch activists, around one hundred people lost their lives on the Bloody Friday in Zahedan.
The Iranian government has stated the number of fatalities as 35.