URGENT: Several Iranian patrol elements killed, injured, in landmines blasts on Iraq-Iran borders

ARBIL / IraqiNews.com: A number of an Iranian patrol have been killed or injured in 4 landmine blasts that blew up under their patrol inside the Iraqi borders, close to the borders with Iran , a Kurdish Peshmerga source said in Arbil on Thursday.   “Four land mines have blown off consequently against an Iranian patrol inside the Iraqi borders, close to Qandil Mountain at the border village of Koya Kani-Rush in northeast Arbil, killing and wounding a number of its elements,” the Commander of the 43 rd Peshmerga Force, Major-General Halgurd Khidher, told IraqiNews.com news agency.   Noteworthy is that the Peshmerga’s 43 rd Unit is stationed on the Iraqi side of the borders with Iran .   On his part, the Official Spokesman for the Peshmerga Ministry in northern Iraq ’s Kurdistan Region, Jabbar Yawar, denied knowledge of the incident, whilst IraqiNews.com tried to contact the Mayor of the border Choman township to get further details, but failed.   Meanwhile, the electronic position of the Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP), one of two parties, ruling Kurdistan together with the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan (PUK) reported that the landmines explosions have killed seven of the Iranian patrol’s men. SKH (ST)