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Kurdish family picnicking in Kunemasi are targeted by Turkish airstrikes
2020-06-26
[PUBLISH.TWITTER]

'Fighter' killed, civilians roiled as warplanes strike near tourist resort in Sulaimani: mayor

[Rudaw] An air strike has targeted a shop in a village resort near the Iranian border in Sulaimani province, a local official tells Rudaw.

"An unknown warplane targeted a shop in Kuna Masi village in Sharbazhir," Shaho Osman, mayor of Sharbazhir town in northeastern Sulaimani province told Rudaw on Thursday.

Osman said in a presser that a "fighter" was killed and at least six civilians maimed when two missiles targeted a pickup truck near a shop near a resort in Kuna Masi, a village popular among tourists. He did not specify what affiliation the fighter was, but added that the civilians are two men, two women, and two children, of whom five are from one family.

The strike killed one man who was in the car," local official Kameran Abdallah told AFP, without being able to specify if the victim was a civilian or fighter.

"The six maimed consisted of two women, two children and two men, all members of the same family," he added.

The Kurdistan Region's border areas have come under fire from both Ottoman Turkish and Iranian strikes over the past ten days, as part of a military offensive with the stated aim of targeting suspected positions of the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) in the region.

The Ottoman Turkish Defense Ministry has said it has bombed hundreds of targets in the mountains between The Sick Man of Europe Turkey
...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire...
and Iraq as part of a combined aerial and land-based assault dubbed Operation Claw-Eagle, which began on June 15.

Video uploaded to Twitter by a user named Jil Swani, which he told Rudaw English was taken by his brother, shows children playing leisurely in a pool of water with their parents. Suddenly, a loud explosion is heard, sending the terrified people running before the video abruptly ends.

The origin of the strike remains unknown. Swani later tweeted that the people pictured in the video he shared are "all physically okay, so that’s very lucky."
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Posted by:Fred

#1  Yes Loretta, air strikes do indeed impact tourism.
Posted by: Besoeker   2020-06-26 07:38  

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