Al-Jazeera correspondent reported that missiles fell in the vicinity of the US consulate in the city of Erbil (the capital of the Kurdistan region of Iraq), while Reuters quoted a US official as saying that no one was killed or wounded in the attack.
The director of the Al-Jazeera office from Erbil, Ahmed Al-Zawiti, said that the missile strikes targeted the new US consulate building in Erbil on the Salah al-Din resort, while the Anti-Terrorism Directorate in Iraqi Kurdistan indicated that 12 ballistic missiles were fired at Erbil from outside Iraq.
Reuters quoted an American official (who asked not to be named) yesterday evening, Saturday, that no American soldiers were killed or injured after the attack on the consulate.
The Iraqi News Agency quoted the governor of Erbil, Omid Khoshnaw, as saying that several missiles fell on Erbil.
State television quoted the Minister of Health in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq, Saman Barzanji, as saying that the Erbil explosions did not result in casualties or injuries.
Al-Zawiti said that unofficial sources indicated that these explosions are not similar to the previous ones, as the sources of the bombing were geographically far away, in addition to hearing violent explosions in separate places inside and outside the city of Erbil, which caused panic among the citizens.
Iraqi Prime Minister Mustafa Al-Kazemi condemned these bombings, and confirmed - in a telephone conversation with the Prime Minister of the Kurdistan Region of Iraq, Masrour Barzani - the start of investigations to find out the sources of this bombing and the parties behind it.