Drone blast near US consulate in Erbil injures three
No US-led coalition facilities were hit in the latest attack, an official told Al-Monitor.
A drone armed with explosives lightly injured three civilians in the city of Erbil in the Kurdistan Region of northern Iraq on Wednesday.
A spokesperson for the Kurdistan Regional Government said the blast, which occurred on Pirmam-Erbil road at 9:35 p.m. local time, also damaged civilian vehicles. The injured received medical attention, Rudaw news quoted the region’s health minister as saying.
The intended target of the attack, which occurred some 3 kilometers (1.9 miles) from the construction site of a new US consulate facility, was not immediately clear.
Sabereen News, which is associated with pro-Iran militias in Iraq, released video purporting to show the blast. A Telegram channel for Sabereen initially claimed the US consulate complex and a US base in the Shoresh neighborhood had been targeted, before an update was issued saying that the targeted headquarters was near the Emirati consulate and some kilometers away from the new US consulate building.
