Villager ‘seriously’ injured by landmine in Erbil province
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(Kurdistan 24) A villager in the Kurdistan Region’s Erbil province was severely wounded by an exploding landmine on Wednesday.
The incident occurred early Wednesday in Zhilya (Speendarok) village in the Soran Independent Administration in northeastern Erbil near the Iranian border.
The villager, a Peshmerga, was removing weeds in the area when the mine detonated, the Mayor of Sidakan Ihsan Chalabi told Kurdistan 24 on Wednesday.