At least one person was killed on Wednesday June 15 in an airstrike that hit the Sinjar region in northern Iraq, we learned from security sources, who accused the army of Turkish air.
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A stronghold of the Yazidi minority, the Sinjar region is sporadically the target of Turkish-led bombings against bases of the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK), a group that has been waging an insurgency against the Turkish state since 1984 and that Ankara considered a "
terrorist
".
“A 12-year-old child was killed”
The raid hit a "
municipal council building in Snuny
", a village near the Syrian border, said a security source in the autonomous region of Iraqi Kurdistan (north).
"
A 12-year-old child was killed and six other people were injured
," said the official on condition of anonymity.
Another security source spoke of "
two dead
", assuring that the victims were both civilians.
According to this person, the raid hit a base of Ezidikhan, a Yazidi minority protection force close to the PKK.
The two sources interviewed by AFP claimed that the operation was carried out by the Turkish air force.
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Turkey launched a new offensive in northern Iraq in April, dubbed "
Claw withdrawn
", which, according to it, targets PKK bases and training camps.
The Sinjar region is the historic home of the Yazidi minority, a Kurdish-speaking community persecuted for centuries, in particular by the jihadists of the Islamic State group.
This area was in May the scene of fighting between the Iraqi army and Yazidi fighters affiliated with the PKK, causing the displacement of more than 10,000 people.
