According to a news published by Jomhouri Eslami and Ettela’at newspapers on August 4, 1980, a number of armed assailants wielding heavy and small arms launched an attack on Gendarmerie of Godneshin, Urmiā, but faced with fierce resistance and retreated. The assailants then took hostage a villager in Bāleqchi. The armed standoff left one dead.