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Two killed in Turkish airstrike in northern Iraq

Baghdad, Aug 26 (Xinhua) Two people were killed in an airstrike by a Turkish drone near the town of Sinjar in Iraq's northern province of Nineveh, the Iraqi military said on Wednesday.
The Turkish drone violated the Iraqi airspace at about 7:00 p.m. on Tuesday (1600 GMT) and bombed a pickup truck at a village near the town of Sinjar, some 100 km west of Nineveh's provincial capital Mosul, killing two people aboard but the driver survived the attack, the media office of the Iraqi Joint Operations Command said in a statement.
The Turkish aircraft also bombed a site in the village of Bara Khansour near Sinjar, but there are no reports on casualties yet, the statement said.
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