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SULAIMANI — Iranian army artillery shelled several areas in the Kurdistan Region on Thursday (September 6), just one day after the Turkish army bombarded a number of villages nearby.

Director of the Sidakan sub-district, Ihsan Chalabi, told NRT that the bombardment started at 11:07 a.m. in the Bradost area, northeast of the region’s capital Erbil.

Casualties remained unclear, Chalabi added. The shelling, however, did set fire to fields and vegetation in the area.

NRT reporter Abdo Hossein said that Iranian artillery had also bombarded the Balakayati area near the border with Iran.

The Democratic Party of Iranian Kurdistan (PDKI or HDKA) said Iranian artillery had bombarded its positions in Choman and Sidakan, northeast of Erbil.

“Our bases and headquarters have been under attack of Iran’s military artillery,” the HDKA added.

Iran’s bombardment came one day after Turkey’s military artillery shelled the villages of Kawarti, Mount Del, Gali Khwakurk, and Khalifan in Bradost.

Iran and Turkey intermittently shell villages on the Kurdistan Region’s border. The two countries saying that they are targeting suspected positions of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) and Iranian Kurdish opposition groups respectively.

The shelling has caused significant damage to the villages near the border.

Units of the Turkish army have entered 30 kilometers into the Kurdistan Region and it has also created a number of military bases inside the Region, according to local authorities.

(NRT)