SULAIMANI (ESTA) — A Turkish airstrike has cut off power supply to a village in the Kurdistan Region’s sub-district of Kani Mase, a local official said late on Wednesday.
Director of Kani Mase sub-district Sarbast Sabri told Esta Media Network that a Turkish strike on an area near the village of Hirure on Wednesday afternoon had cut off power supply to the village.
Sabri added that the maintenance teams would work to solve the issue on Thursday.
It was the fifth time that the Turkish airstrikes had cut off power supply to the village this year.
On June 2, Turkish warplanes bombed the foothills of Qandil mountain, damaging power lines in the area.
According to a local official, the strikes cut off power of three villages in Warte sub-district, 135.5 kilometers northeast of Erbil.
In April, power supply to 76 villages in the Kurdistan Region’s district of Amedi was cut off due to continuous Turkish airstrikes and artillery shelling.
Turkey has taken its decades-old conflict with the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) deep into the Kurdistan Region, establishing military bases and deploying armed military drones against the fighters in their mountain strongholds.
Most of the operations have focused on territory up to 30 km (20 miles) from the border.
