Teheran, May 11 (IANS/AKI) Authorities in Iran have hanged five convicted drug-traffickers in the country's northwest area, a media report here said.

 
 The hanging was carried out immediately after the convicts were awarded death sentence by a court in Orumieh,the capital of West Azerbaijan Province.
 
 They were hanged in the main prison of Orumieh in Iran's northwest, Iranpressnews reported Tuesday.
 
 Esfandiar Mandahki, Teimur Aiubian, Aref Rashid-pour and two other unnamed men bring to 300 the number of people hanged in Iran over the past nine months.
 
 Since the 1979 Iranian Revolution, drug trafficking is among a series of crimes punishable with the death penalty in the country.