EXPRESS.co.uk
MORE than a dozen Iranian rockets have blasted a refugee camp deep inside Iraq, killing at least 20 people, according to reports.
By Tom Batchelor
The attack on a camp next to Baghdad International Airport is thought to have been targeting members of an exiled Iranian opposition group.
A source linked to the National Council of Resistance of Iran told Express.co.uk more than 20 Iranians had been killed in the attack, although that figure could not be independently verified.
Twelve katyusha rockets landed in Camp Liberty, a former US air base converted into a temporary refuge for those exiled from Iran in 2011.
But many of those living in the camp are members of the People’s Mujahideen Organisation of Iran, a group that until 2012 was designated as a terror network by the United States.
Huge craters two metres deep and three metres wide were blown into the earth, and electricity supplies were wiped, according to reports on the ground.
The source told Express.co.uk the attack was carried out by “pro-Iranian militia groups backed by the Iranian regime”.
He accused the Iraqi army of being complicit in the attacks, as the camp is said to be completely surrounded by government troops.
Flights in and out of Baghdad Airport were briefly suspended after the strike, which is said to be the fifth such attack.