Three Katiousha rockets fell Wednesday evening April 6 near an oil refinery in the autonomous region of Kurdistan of Iraq "
without causing material damage or causing casualties
", declared the Kurdish anti-terrorist services.
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The rockets fell near the Kawergosk refinery, one of the largest in this oil-rich region, located about 20 km northwest of Erbil, Kurdish anti-terrorist services said in a statement.
They caused "
no human or material damage
", they assured.
The shots “
came from the Khazir region
”, near Mosul, a large city in northern Iraq, and “
they were directed towards Erbil
”, according to the Kurdish anti-terrorist services, which did not specify the exact target of the projectiles .
The attack, not immediately claimed, comes just over three weeks after the Revolutionary Guards, the ideological army of the Islamic Republic of Iran, claimed to have targeted an Israeli “
strategic center
” in Erbil, capital of Iraqi Kurdistan, firing twelve ballistic missiles.
These shots caused no casualties, but caused serious material damage.