ERBIL-Hewler, Kurdistan region ‘Iraq’,— A Peshmerga fighter was injured in Erbil in Iraqi Kurdistan on Tuesday after being accidentally shot by a Dutch soldier on a training location, the Ministry of Defense announced in a press statement on its website.

The Kurdish fighter was taken to a hospital and the Ministry of Peshmerga has been informed.

The Koninklijke Marechaussee is at the training location to investigate the circumstances of the incident.

The Dutch army began training the Kurds in mid-February, and in the coming months, the training mission will be relocated to the Kurdistan Training Coordination Center (KTCC), close to Erbil International Airport.

A recently leaked German army report suggest that the growing presence of German soldiers in Kurdistan increases the terrorist threat to foreign soldiers involved in the mission, reports Der Spiegel.

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