MoT denies attacking Iraqi plane in Syria

Baghdad (IraqiNews.com) The media Advisor of the Ministry of Transport, Kareem al-Nouri, denied the reports over attacking an Iraqi plane at Damascus International Airport on Thursday.

In a press statement on Thursday night, he said “The Iraqi flights to Syria have been suspended since along time due to the security situation in Syria.”

Earlier, some media outlets mentioned that an Iraqi plane at Damascus Airport was attacked by mortar shells.

The Syrian Transportation Minister, Mahmoud Saeed, announced that the news over attacking an Iraq aircraft and injuring its passengers is exaggerated news, noting that “It is only one mortar shell that attacked the airport and did not cause any casualties where we delayed the landing oftwo flights coming from Lathiqiya in Syria and Kuwait.”

The official Syrian News Agency quoted Saeed as saying “There was not any Iraqi aircraft in the airport, but there was a Syrian aircraft that wanted to go to Iraq.”