Iran shells PDKI headquarters in Kurdistan Region’s Koya: police

 Iran shells PDKI headquarters in Kurdistan Region’s Koya: police .

ERBIL, Kurdistan Region – Iran is shelling the headquarters of a Kurdish Iranian party in the Kurdistan Region town of Koya, police confirmed.

The headquarters of the Democratic Party of Iranian Kurdistan (PDKI) in Koya is under Iranian fire, Shoresh Kaka, director of Koya police, told Rudaw.

Five people have been killed and 30 injured, head of Koya's health department Kamaran Abbas told Rudaw.

Local authorities in the Kurdistan Region’s border areas with Iran have confirmed that Iran has been shelling the region for several days.

Iranian shelling has sparked fires and forced farmers and their livestock to leave the area that has been under bombardment for four days, according to Abdullah Hussein, the mukhtar (local representative) of Alana village in the border town of Haji Omran.

In the Bradost area, west of Haji Omran, some 200 acres of land has been burned, forcing people to evacuate Barbazin village, the local mukhtar, Mohammed Bradosti, said.

Iran has shelled areas inside the Kurdistan Region on many occasions on the pretext of the presence of armed Kurdish groups like PDKI on its border.

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