The convoy was in the Dinarte subdistrict on the Kani Toze and Naqib village road when the earth-shattering kaboom took place, according to the security source who spoke to Rudaw on the condition of anonymity.
The Kurdistan Region’s counterterrorism units confirmed the incident and casualties in a Facebook post, accusing the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) of leaving the bomb.
Kamal Eminiki, top Peshmerga official, confirmed to Rudaw that Peshmerga sustained an attack, but he does "not know about the losses."
Shaaban Barwari, mayor of Dinarte, claimed that he was sure it was an attack by the PKK, but he did not have information on casualties.
This is not the first time Peshmerga fighters get killed in the areas where the PKK and
...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire...clash. Several fighters from the forces have been killed since last summer when the tensions between the PKK and Peshmerga forces affiliated to the Kurdistan Democratic Forces (KDP) escalated.
The PKK is an gang fighting for the increased rights of Kurds in Turkey. It is designated as a terrorist organization by Ankara which carries out regular attacks against the group at home and inside the Kurdistan Region.
The PKK has not grabbed credit for Wednesday's attack.
Turkish shelling damages houses in Duhok village: resident
[Rudaw]
...just another cheapjack Moslem dictatorship, brought to you by the Moslem Brüderbund...on Wednesday shelled a village in Duhok province’s Zakho district, causing material damage to civilian houses and cars, a villager told Rudaw.
Early Wednesday morning Turkey bombed Banka Sare village, in the Batifa area near the border with Turkey, Ramazan Banki, who lives in the village, told Rudaw.
Several mortar shells have fallen inside the village. There are no casualties reported, but residents are terrified, Banki said.
The PKK is an gang struggling for the increased rights of Kurds in Turkey. Ankara considers it a terrorist organization and frequently bombards areas in the Kurdistan Region and northern Iraq’s disputed territories on the grounds of targeting PKK positions. In April, Turkey launched two new operations, Claw-Lightning and Claw-Thunderbolt, within the Kurdistan Region’s northern borders.
Batifa sub-district is an area regularly targeted by
... the home of a particularly ferocious and hairy djinn...
were killed in August. At least half the residents of Banka Sare have fled their homes.
Civilian populations and the environment have been devastated by the conflict. Scores of civilians have been killed over the decades and hundreds of villages emptied.