July 20 () –
At least eight people have died and more than 20 have been injured due to a bombing carried out this Wednesday by alleged Turkish planes against a town in the surroundings of Zajo, located in the semi-autonomous Iraqi region of Kurdistan, according to local authorities, that have warned that the balance of victims could increase.
The head of the Zajo Tourism Directorate, Chiya Amin, has indicated that among the deceased there are children and added that the victims were part of a group of about 200 tourists who arrived from the capital, Baghdad, as reported by the chain Kurdish television Rudaw.
The mayor of Zajo, Muhsin Bashir, has accused Turkey of carrying out several attacks on the village of Paraj and has claimed that suspected members of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) were in the vicinity, which could have triggered the bombing.
Turkey announced in mid-April the start of a new offensive against the PKK in Iraqi Kurdistan, in northern Iraq, which was described by Baghdad as a “national security threat”, given that the operations were not being coordinated. .
The Turkish Army has also repeatedly carried out military operations against the PKK and its allies in northern Syria since the ceasefire between the Government and the armed group was broken in July 2015.
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