No casualties in Turkish bombing of Iraq: PKK
SULAIMANIYA, Iraq (Reuters) - Turkish bombing of northern Iraq on Saturday caused no casualties, a spokesman for the PKK Kurdish rebel group said.
The spokesman, reached by telephone from northern Iraq, said there was heavy bombardment of an area near Iraq's borders with Turkey and Iran on Saturday morning, following similar bombing late on Friday. The PKK had already said no one was hurt in Friday's strikes.
In a statement on its website, the PUK, the Kurdish political party of Iraqi President Jalal Talabani, also said no one was hurt in the bombing on Friday and Saturday.
(Reporting by Khalid an-Ansary in Baghdad and Shamal Aqrawi in Arbil; writing by Peter Graff, Editing by Dean Yates)
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