Afghan Acting Foreign Minister, Mohammad Hanif Atmar speaks on phone with the his Iranian counterpart, Jawad Zarif the Foreign Minister of Iran, the Ministry of Foreign (MoF) said.

MoF in a statement said that the two sides discussed the issue of drowning of Afghan migrants by Iranian Border Guards.
According to the statement, Zarif has assured Atmar that investigations regarding the incident will be started soon.
This comes as Afghan forces has recovered 18 bodies of migrants who were allegedly beaten and tortured before being forced into a river by Iranian border guards last week, a senior Afghan official said on Friday.