Afghan Foreign Minister Zalmai Rasoul has summoned Iran's Ambassador to Kabul and formally lodged a protest over the alleged killing of migrants by Iranian border guards last Friday, media reports said late on Sunday.
The Afghan Foreign Ministry was quoted as saying in a statement by the BBC that the Iranian envoy was summoned to "protest against the killing and injuring of some unarmed Afghans who had entered Iranian soil for work."
"Firing at Afghan civilians who wanted to go to Iran for work is against religious, cultural and good neighborly relations," the statement added.
In a statement issued earlier, the Ministry said at least ten people were killed and eight others injured after Iranian border guards opened fire on a group of some 300 Afghan laborers who attempted to cross the border into Iran illegally on Friday in search of work.
It also criticized the Afghan border guards for allowing the migrants to cross the border into Iran without having proper passports or visas. Notably, Iran is yet to make a formal comment on the shooting.
It is estimated that more than 2.4 million Afghans are currently living in Iran, most of whom moved into Iran after 1979 Soviet invasion of Afghanistan. In addition, thousands of Afghans still attempt to cross the border into Iran illegally every year to seek work.
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