Iraq: coalition-based rockets in Erbil, contractor dead

(ANSA) - ROME, FEB 16 - Three rockets were launched yesterday evening at the Erbil airport, in Iraqi Kurdistan and one of them fell in a residential area near a military base that houses foreign troops of the American-led coalition, killing a civilian contractor foreigner, it seems American. Five were wounded, including an American soldier. No consequences for Italian soldiers present on the base. According to Kurdish television Rudaw, the rockets were fired from Hamdaniya district. US Secretary of State Antony Blinken called for an investigation into the attack and promised to "ask those responsible for it." "We are outraged by the attack in the Iraqi Kurdistan region," he said in a statement. "I contacted the Prime Minister of the Kurdistan Regional Government, Masrour Barzani, to discuss the matter and to commit to supporting all efforts to investigate and ask those responsible for an account". (HANDLE).