BAGHDAD – Three Iraqi children and two women from the same family were killed Monday when a rocket targeting Baghdad airport, where US troops are stationed, fell instead on their home, the army said.
Monday’s incident was the first to claim so many civilian lives. The army said it also wounded two other children.
Twitter accounts supporting US arch-enemy Iran regularly praise the attacks, but that was not the case Monday, and no group immediately claimed responsibility.
Experts say they include former members of pro-Iranian factions of the Hashed al-Shaabi paramilitary alliance.
The Iraqi army, in its statement Monday, accused “criminal gangs and groups of outlaws” of seeking to “create chaos and terrorize people.”(AFP)
