ERBIL, Kurdistan Region - A suspected Iranian drone crashed in the Makhmour district of Nineveh province on Saturday. Separately, a fire broke out in Sulaimani province and officials suspect it was caused by drone or missile fragments.
“At around 1:00 pm, a fire broke out near Sheikh Mansourian village and we haven't been able to control it,” Kamaran Abdullah, the administrator of Khalakan sub-district, told Rudaw. Khalakan is located near Dukan Lake.
Abdullah said locals and officials searched for the source of the fire with no luck and have speculated that “a drone or missile fragment has fallen,” causing the blaze, though this has not been confirmed.
Separately, a drone crashed in the Makhmour district of Nineveh province.
Ghazi Faisal, head of the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan’s (PUK) Makhmour office, told Rudaw that the drone crashed without any explosion.
“We suspect it's an Iranian drone. We have informed the Iraqi forces and they went to retrieve it,” he said.
The Kurdistan Region and Iraq lie under the flight path of Iranian drones and missiles aimed at Israel. There have been multiple reports of drones and debris falling from the sky, sometimes sparking fires.
The moment local security forces detonated a suspected Iranian drone on Saturday, after it crashed in an open area in the Makhmour district of Nineveh province. pic.twitter.com/OVeqgPWFjQ
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