|
Iranian forces resume shelling Iraqi
Kurdistan border areas
28.9.2007
|
|
|
|
September
28, 2007
Sulaimaniyah, Kurdistan region 'Iraq',--
Iranian forces resumed shelling several border
villages in Kurdistan autonomous region, a Kurdish
official source said Friday.
A Kurdish official in Sulaimaniyah, 350 kilometres
north of Baghdad, said: "The bombings, restarted
Thursday, forced a large number of Kurds to leave
their villages after they had returned to them when
the bombings stopped lately."
"Casualties and damages have not been identified yet
due to the severity of the shelling," he added.
Iraqi Kurdish officials said last month that
hundreds of Iraqi
Kurds had fled remote mountain
villages near the country's eastern
frontier after Iranian gunners targeted separatist
guerrilla bases.
On Thursday the Iranian forces have shelled deeper
into Kurdistan 'northern Iraq' than previously,
hitting targets in an area
northeast of the city of Erbil, capital of Iraq's
Kurdistan region, a local official said.
"The Iranian forces began their bombardments again
on Wednesday evening targeting far away from the
border," said Abdul Wahid Koani, mayor of the
Kurdish Iraqi border town of Joman.
Iranian forces have recurrently hit Kurdish border
areas claiming they were pursuing the fighters of
Free Life Party of Kurdistan (PJAK).
Since 2004
PEJAK, took up
arms for self-rule in the country's mainly Kurdistan
province northwestern of Iran. Half the members of
PEJAK are women.
DPA
Top |
Kurd Net
does not take credit for and is not responsible for the content of news
information on this page
|
® 