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Death toll climbs in Iranian drone attack on Iraq’s Kurdish region

Smoke rises from the Iraqi Kurdistan headquarters of the Kurdish Democratic Party of Iran on the outskirts of Kirkuk, Iraq, September 28, 2022. © Ako Rasheed, Reuters

An Iranian drone bombing campaign targeting the bases of an Iranian-Kurdish opposition group in northern Iraq on Wednesday killed at least nine people and wounded 32 others, the Kurdish Regional Government’s Health Ministry said.

The strikes took place as demonstrations continued to engulf the Islamic Republic after the death of Mahsa Amini, a 22-year-old Iranian Kurdish woman who was detained by the Iranian morality police.

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