BAGHDAD, Sept 29 (NNN-NINA) – Three children and two women were killed on Monday, when two rockets landed on their house, near the Baghdad International Airport, the Iraqi military said.
Two other children were also wounded in the Katyusha rocket attack, that struck and destroyed the family’s house in Albu-Amir area, in the southwest of the Iraqi capital, in the afternoon, the media office of the Iraqi Joint Operations Command said in a statement.
The rockets were fired by “criminal gangs and outlawed groups” from the nearby al-Jihad neighbourhood, the statement added.
Prime Minister, Mustafa al-Kadhimi, also commander-in-chief of the Iraqi forces, ordered the arrest of officers responsible for security of al-Jihad neighbourhood and an immediate investigation into the incident.
No group has yet claimed responsibility for the attack, but the Baghdad airport and the military bases housing U.S. troops across Iraq, as well as, the U.S. embassy in the Green Zone have been frequently targeted by mortar and rocket attacks.
According to reports, U.S. Secretary of State, Mike Pompeo, privately warned Iraq earlier that, the United States would close its embassy in Baghdad, if the Iraqi government doesn’t move to stop such attacks.
