Five people were wounded on Sunday as Iranian artillery bombarded Iran's Kurdish rebel posts along the border within Kurdistan, the semi-autonomous region in northern Iraq. (Xinhua/AFP Photo)
BAGHDAD, June 26 (Xinhua) -- Five people were wounded Sunday as Iranian artillery bombarded Iran's Kurdish rebel posts along the border within Kurdistan, the semi-autonomous region in northern Iraq, a Kurdish security source said.
"Iranian artillery pounded the bordering areas of Sodkan and Soran in the province of Arbil, wounding five people and damaging several residential buildings," the source told Xinhua on condition of anonymity.
The Iranian attack also bombarded the villages of Alana, Kuna Re and Harman, in Haj Omran which is near the border with Iran in the area of Chorman in Arbil, the source said.
There were no casualties resulting from the shelling in the villages, however many families were forced to leave their homes for safer areas, the source added.
Apparently, the Iranian army pounded Kurdistan's border claiming the presence of Iran's Kurdish Democratic Party (KDPI) fighters, also known as Iran's Kurdish rebels, the source explained.
The KDPI is a Kurdish political party in Iran's Kurdistan.
The Party is struggling to attain its Kurdish national rights within a democratic federal republic of Iran.
