Two journalists killed in Iraq drone strike

By AFP
August 24, 2024
The mother (centre) and father (2-right) of one of two women journalists killed in a drone strike walk past Kurdish Asayish security forces as relatives and journalists gather in front of the forensic department where the bodies of the two women were brought, in Sulaimaniyah in Iraqs autonomous Kurdistan region on August 23, 2024. — AFP
The mother (centre) and father (2-right) of one of two women journalists killed in a drone strike walk past Kurdish Asayish security forces as relatives and journalists gather in front of the forensic department where the bodies of the two women were brought, in Sulaimaniyah in Iraq's autonomous Kurdistan region on August 23, 2024. — AFP

SULAIMANIYAH, Iraq: A drone strike killed two women journalists in Iraq´s autonomous Kurdish region on Friday, officials said, blaming Turkiye whose military operates against Kurdish fighters in the area.

The counter-terrorism service in regional capital Arbil said the dead were fighters of the Kurdistan Workers´ Party (PKK) but officials in the region´s second city Sulaimaniyah said they were journalists,

An Iraqi security official told AFP on condition of anonymity that a “drone likely belonging to the Turkish army struck a vehicle carrying journalists” in Sayyid Sadik, east of Sulaimaniyah. When contacted by AFP, the defence ministry in Ankara said it was “not the Turkish army” that carried out the strike.