On Tuesday, June 4, 2024, Ayoub Gorgij, a 28-year-old Baloch citizen from the village of Jarikeh, was shot and killed by Iranian border forces at Tower 3 in the zero-border area between Iran and Afghanistan. Ayoub was shot without prior warning from a few hundred meters away, and the border forces left him at the scene. His body was discovered four days later by Taliban forces who were patrolling the area and was transferred to the morgue in Zaranj, Afghanistan. Five days later, on June 9, 2024, his family retrieved his body from the morgue and buried him in his hometown, Jarikeh. Ayoub’s family has not yet received an explanation from local authorities regarding the shooting or the neglect of his body.
