Iraqi Kurdistan: Three people killed in Sulaymaniyah in suspected Turkish drone strike

Three people were killed and one injured by a Turkish drone strike late Saturday in the Sulaymaniyah province of the Kurdistan Region of Iraq (KRI), Roj News reported.

A vehicle was targeted by a drone in a village in the district of Penjwen, on the Iranian border, Roj News said.

Turkish drones reportedly conducted airstrikes on three villages (Salyawa, Wiryawa Kani Mirani and Babe Ali), situated around 30 km to the district center of Penjwen.

Sulaymaniyah province is under the control of Iraqi Kurdistan's second largest party Patriotic Union of Kurdistan (PUK).

Turkish foreign minister Mevlut Cavusoglu earlier claimed on Monday that the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK), designated a "terrorist group" by Ankara, now has total control over the PUK, and that it is gradually infiltrating all strategic posts of significance in Sulaymaniyah.

The drone strikes in Penjwen's villages came a week after a suspected Turkish drone targeted and missed on 7 April a convoy of cars carrying Mazloum Abdi, the top commander of Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), Ilham Ahmed, the head of the governing body of the Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria (AANES), and US troops in the perimeter of Sulaymaniyah Airport.

Suspected Turkish air strike in Duhok

Hours before the drones targeted villages in Penjwen, a suspected Turkish warplane bombarded the area around a village in Duhok province of KRI.

Abdulsattar Mersidi from the village of Mersid in Shekhan district told Rudaw that a Turkish warplane bombarded Mount Bekher near their village early Saturday morning.

There were no casualties.