This was followed by an Iranian helicopter crash in Khoy, an incident which was claimed to be performed by PJAK, though denied by Iranians as technical malfunction.
Several injured were transferred for treatment to the Iranian border city of Khoy.
Mar Shimun Benyamin had arranged for some 3,500 Assyrians to reside in the district of Khoi.
Later on, thanks to their friendship, Ahmadinejad received his first official job, as the mayor of Maku and Khoy, near the border with Turkey.
300–800, in the area of Khoy (present-day Iran), it is also the name of a modern day city in Iran.
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After the murder of Mar Shimun, the Hakkari Christians took revenge on the Muslim population of Salmas and most of the villages of Salmas County, while Simko and his men massacred Christians in Khoy.