Three people, “including a child”, were killed in Iraq today in a drone strike that targeted a truck in Kurdistan, a local official in the northern region where the Turkish army regularly bombards Kurds told AFP. PKK fighters.

The strike comes a day after a similar bombing killed three people from a town in autonomous Iraqi Kurdistan, a father and his children – two teenagers aged 14 and 18 – according to Kamran Osman of the non-governmental organization Community Peacemakers Teams (CPT) active in the region.

Ankara has periodically confirmed its strikes on Iraqi soil, where it continues a military campaign with ground and air operations against the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK), which has been designated a terrorist organization by Turkey and its Western allies.

“This afternoon, a drone attacked a small truck, killing three people, including a child,” said Osman Anwar, governor of Suarta district, where the bombing took place, near the village of Harmele.

The driver of the van was an “ordinary citizen, a villager,” the official said after the victim was identified.

Waging an armed struggle against the Turkish authorities since 1984, PKK militants have strongholds in the autonomous region of Iraqi Kurdistan, on the border with Turkey. In the last 25 years there have also been dozens of Turkish military bases in this area.

Turkey on Monday carried out airstrikes against PKK militants in the mountains of northern Iraq, the Turkish defense minister said, saying the strikes destroyed “20 targets consisting of caves, shelters, warehouses and facilities” used by the group.