11 dead in attack on Kurdish group in Iraq

At least 11 killed and scores wounded in missile attack on Iranian Kurdish party offices in Koya, reports say.

Iran's Revolutionary Guards have fired seven missiles in an attack on Iraq-based Iranian Kurdish dissidents, killing at least 11 people, reports say.

Iraqi Kurdish officials said Iran attacked the base of Kurdistan Democratic Party of Iran in northern Iraq on Saturday, wounding scores more, Iranian news agencies report.

"In a successful operation, the Guards' aerospace unit, along with the army's drone unit ... targeted a criminal group's meeting and a terrorist training centre with seven short-range surface-to-surface missiles," the Revolutionary Guards said in a statement carried by the semi-official news agency Fars.

In a post on Twitter, the Kurdistan Democratic Party of Iran (KDPI) blamed Iran for the attack and said an adjacent refugee camp was also hit.

Kurds account for about 10 per cent of Iran's population of 80 million people, with many living in the mountainous northwest region that borders Iraq and Turkey.


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