ERBIL, Iraq: A missile attack targeted an oil refinery in Iraq’s northern city of Erbil yesterday causing a fire in one of its main tanks that was later brought under control, the Iraqi security forces said in a statement.
A missile also landed in the outer fence of the refinery without causing any casualties, the statement added.
Earlier, the anti-terrorism authorities in Kurdistan region said six missiles landed near the KAR refinery in Erbil, adding they were launched from Nineveh province.
The security forces said they found a launch pad and four missiles in the Nineveh Plain after the attack and defused them.
Two rockets targeting a base in western Iraq hosting US-led coalition troops on Saturday crashed near the complex without causing casualties or damage, security sources said.
“Two rockets fell outside the Iraqi base of Ain al-Asad,” a security forces statement said, adding there were no “losses”.
Three missiles also fell near the refinery on April 6, without causing any casualties. Sources in the Kurdistan Regional Government said then that the refinery is owned by Iraqi Kurdish businessman Baz Karim Barzanji, CEO of major domestic energy company the KAR Group.
In March, Iran attacked Erbil with a dozen ballistic missiles in an unprecedented assault on the capital of the autonomous Iraqi Kurdish region that appeared to target the US and its allies. Only one person was hurt in that attack.
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