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Iranian forces enter Kurdistan-Iraq, shell
Kurdish guerrillas
30.4.2006
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BAGHDAD, April
30, 2006 (AFP) , - Baghdad on Sunday accused Iranian
forces of having over the last 24 hours entered
Iraqi territory and shelled Kurdish PKK guerrillas
in the northern Arbil province.
"Iranian forces hit a border area called Haj Umran
and then entered five kilometers into Iraqi
territory and hit the area of Lollan with heavy
artillery with 180 shells targeting PKK positions,"
it said.
No casualty figures were immediately available.
The attack is the second Iranian offensive against
the Kurdistan Workers' Party guerilla group (PKK) in
10 days. The group is fighting for the creation of
an independent Kurdish state in southeastern Turkey.
The initial April 20 shelling killed at least two
people and injured 10 others, the PKK said.
Iran is bound by treaty with Turkey to fight the
outlawed PKK, which has waged a 15-year insurgency
against Ankara for self rule in Turkey's mainly
Kurdish southeast.
In return, Turkey has pledged to fight the Iranian
armed opposition group, the Iraq-based People's
Mujahedeen.
AFP
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