A drone armed with explosives lightly injured three civilians near a U.S. consulate building in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq on Wednesday.
A spokesperson for the Kurdistan Regional Government said the blast, which occurred on Pirmam-Erbil road in Erbil 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.
A senior official with the US-led military coalition in Iraq and Syria told Al-Monitor that the explosion did not impact any facilities housing coalition troops. The coalition official said KRG security forces had recovered the drone, but said there was no indication yet of its type or origin.
