In the old part of the city of Erbil, the capital of Kurdistan in northern Iraq. . File photoCAiro, Jun 9 Three people were injured when a drone loaded with explosives crashed in the suburbs of the capital of Iraqi Kurdistan, Erbil, the region's Anti-Terrorism Service reported. Earlier, the Kurdish television channel Rudaw reported that the highway between Erbil and the resort town Salah al-Din came under rocket attack. «An explosive-laden one fell today … on the main highway between Erbil and the summer resort of Salah al-Din, injuring three citizens,» the intelligence service said in a statement. According to the Al Arabia TV channel, the drone fell on a distance of five kilometers from the US Consulate General in Erbil under construction. the Erbil region was shelled from Iranian territory. The Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC, the elite units of the Iranian Armed Forces) claimed responsibility for the rocket attack, saying that it managed to hit Israeli secret bases in Kurdistan. However, local authorities reported that there were no Israeli bases there, and rockets hit a residential area where, in particular, a new US Consulate General complex is being built. as well as attempted drone attacks.
