Trigger-happy Iranian cops have been accused of shooting dead a young father in his car after smashing the vehicle up because he hooted his horn in traffic that had stopped because of the protests.

The man identified as Yahya Rahimi had apparently been honking his horn in support of the protesters together with other drivers.

But he not realised that the people near him were plainclothes officers when he stopped in the middle of the street in the Kurdistan Province capital Sanandaj in Iran.

The trigger-happy cops were in place to quell the latest stage in the ongoing protests over the death of Mahsa Amini, after her arrest by Iranian morality police.

A video of the incident shows the plainclothes police officers smashing Yahya’s car, with him still inside as he tries to drive away.

Another officer hits the car with a stick, breaking the windscreen and as the car drives off camera, a gunshot is heard.

It was reportedly the shot that killed the young man.

The murder happened on 6th Bahman Street in front of Golha shopping centre where protesters had gathered.

This caused him to be slowed down in the traffic in his Kia Pride, so he decided to honk the horn to support what was happening.

In another video, a plainclothes officer with a gun can be seen walking along the street and later running away.

The footage of the shooting that was widely shared was even seen by the dead man’s brother, who at the time had been outraged that the police were randomly shooting drivers. When he learned that the dead person was his brother, he had apparently collapsed.

His death was the fourth in just a few days in Sanandaj with the others identified as Dariush Alizadeh, Peyman Manbari and Mohammad Amini.