At least nine Iraqis were killed when Turkish artillery struck a crowded tourist resort in the country’s northern Kurdistan region on Wednesday, officials said.
Video from the scene of the attack shows a summer idyll destroyed. Shortly before the strike, families gathered near a pond, took a dip or rested in the shade.
When the shots start, screams fill the air under the grape canopy. Parents grabbed their children and ran.
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In an unusually strong rebuke, Prime Minister Mustafa al-Kadhemi warned
Turkey that Iraq reserves the "right to retaliate", calling the
artillery fire a "flagrant violation" of sovereignty.
Turkey
launched an offensive in northern Iraq in April dubbed "Operation
Claw-Lock", which it said targets fighters from the Kurdistan Workers
Party (PKK).
The
victims included Iraqi tourists who had come to the hill village of
Parakh in Zakho district to escape sweltering temperatures further south
in the country, according to Mushir Bashir, the head of Zakho region.
"Turkey hit the village twice today," Bashir told AFP.
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