7 Kurdish activists were seriously injured while responding to a field fire in the city of Mariwan in Rojhilat (East Kurdistan) in Kurdistan province of Iran.

According to reports from the ground, the field fire raging in the region of Kaniya Mîran for days was started by ‘Revolutionary Guards’.

7 Kurdish activists, 5 of whom were identified as Barzan Piruzi, Madeh Nikpey, Burhan Makki, Aram Keyvan and Sivan Nikpey, who went to the region to join efforts to extinguish the fire, were seriously injured as a result of a land mine explosion.

The activists were taken to hospitals in Mariwan and are reported to be in critical condition.