Drone strike targets vehicle at refugee camp southwest of Erbil

An image of a vehicle targeted by a drone inside a refugee camp in Makhmour in southwest of Erbil, May 21, 2022.

SULAIMANI (ESTA) — A drone bombed a vehicle inside a refugee camp in Makhmour in southwest of Erbil on Saturday, following a similar strike in northwest of Sulaimani in which five people were killed.

The drone, which is suspected to be Turkish, carried out an air strike against vehicle carrying five people inside Rostam Judi camp in Makhmour.

According to information Esta Media Network has obtained, two of the people are “in unstable conditions”.

The camp was established in the 1990s when thousands of Kurds from Turkey crossed the border in a movement Ankara says was deliberately provoked by the PKK.

Separately, a Patriotic Union of Kurdistan (PUK) official said seven people who were wounded in the strike were treated at a hospital in Mosul.

The air strike came few hours after another drone strike that targeted a vehicle in Tutaqal village in Aghjalar sub-district in northwest of Sulaimani, killing five people.

There were three fighters of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) and two villagers among them, a source told Esta Media Network.

*This story was updated at 07:13 p.m. EBL time

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