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Car bomb kills, injures 18 Kurdish Peshmerga
fighters north of Mosul
10.8.2007 |
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August
10, 2007
Zakho, Kurdistan region (Iraq), -- Four
Kurdish Peshmerga fighters were killed and 14 others
were injured when a car bomb went off on Friday
morning near to Ein Zala village, north of Mosul, a
Peshmerga source said. Mosul located outside the
autonomous Kurdistan region (Iraq)
"A suicide bomber blew up a car rigged with
explosives at 10:00 am on Friday near a convoy of
Peshmerga fighters while heading for their military
barracks near Ein Zala village, Zamar district,
north of Mosul," Deputy Chief of the 1st squad of
Peshmerga fighters Colonel Fahmi Sofi said.
"The wounded were sent to the nearby hospitals,"
Sofi added.
The Peshmerga is the Kurdish name for 'Kurdish
militia' now (Kurdistan national guard) that fought
the former Iraqi regime, and, after the regime of
Saddam Hussein withdrew the Iraqi army from the
three Kurdish provinces in 1992, turned into
paramilitary forces to protect the region.
Two ministries were established to deal with the
Peshmerga affairs in 2006 in the region's
government.
Zakho lies 60 km northwest of Duhuk, the third
province within Iraq's Kurdistan region. It is in
the far north of Iraq with
borders with Turkey.
Duhuk is located 460 km north of Baghdad.
VOI
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