BAGHDAD, April 15 (Xinhua) -- A Turkish drone bombed on Wednesday a refugee camp for Turkish Kurds in northern Iraq and killed two women, the Iraqi military said.
The Iraqi air defense forces monitored a Turkish unmanned plane, flying with an altitude of 6 km and a speed of 200 km per hour, breached the Iraqi airspace and fired a rocket on a refugee camp for Turkish Kurds near the town of Makhmour, some 100 km southeast of the northern city of Mosul, the media office of the Joint Operations Command said in a statement.
The bombardment resulted in the killing of two women among the refugees, the statement said.
The Iraqi forces rushed to the scene, and more information will be released later, the statement added.
Makhmour area is mainly populated by Arabs and Kurds and has been captured by Iraqi army from the Kurdish Peshmerga forces since October 2017.
Turkish forces frequently carry out ground operations, airstrikes and artillery bombardments against the positions of the outlawed Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) militants in northern Iraq, especially the Qandil Mountains, main base of the PKK.
The PKK is listed as a terrorist organization by Turkey, the United States and the European Union.
