ERBIL, Kurdistan-Iraq, May 2,
(KUNA) -- The government of Kurdistan will announce its position on
the Iranian shelling of the province, as it constitutes a violation
of Iraqi territories and not only the area, said Chairman of the
Kurdish Leadership Court Dr. Fuad Hussein on Tuesday.
He noted in a press statement that the Iraqi Defense Ministry had
declared its condemnation of the attacks.
A civilian Kurdish woman had been killed last night after Iranian
tanks fired randomly at the area of Safh Qandeel on the
Iraqi-Iranian borders.
Fields, houses, and cattle ha also been damaged in the attacks.
The shelling had come after confrontations between members of the
Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) and the Iranian Army, which led to
the firing of the tanks.
Iranian officials claim the attack came to force the PKK out of the
area.
Meanwhile, reports said Iranian forces had penetrated Iraqi
territories as far as two kilometers in the province of Erbil in
search for PKK members, and residents of the area said the
activities had led to a halting of trade activities between the two
sides.
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