5 wounded in Turkish artillery fire on border areas in Kurdistan

ARBIL / IraqiNews.com: Border areas in the Iraqi Kurdistan region came under Turkish artillery fire on Tuesday, leaving five civilians wounded and causing material damage, according to an official source in the Kurdish peshmerga forces. “The Turkish artillery pounded the areas of Mezouri and Arkoush in Shirwan, on the Kurdistan borderlines, leaving five civilians wounded and causing financial damage to local residents’ property,” the source, who preferred not to be named, told IraqiNews.com news agency. Iraqi Kurdistan border areas adjacent to Turkey and Iran occasionally come under Turkish and Iranian artillery fire on claims of attacking anti-Turkey PKK and anti-Iran PJAK guerillas. Arbil, the capital city of the semi-autonomous Iraqi Kurdistan region, lies 360 km north of Baghdad. AmR (P) 1