Isis booby-trapped drone kills troops in Iraq, officials say
A booby-trapped drone launched by Islamic State militants killed two peshmerga fighters and wounded two French soldiers this month north of the Isis-controlled city of Mosul, French and Kurdish officials have said. The drone exploded when peshmerga fighters tried to lift it after it crashed, said Jabbar al-Yawar, secretary general of the autonomous Kurdish region’s […]A booby-trapped drone launched by Islamic State militants killed two peshmerga fighters and wounded two French soldiers this month north of the Isis-controlled city of Mosul, French and Kurdish officials have said.
The drone exploded when peshmerga fighters tried to lift it after it crashed, said Jabbar al-Yawar, secretary general of the autonomous Kurdish region’s defence ministry. “It seems it was booby-trapped.”
Le Monde reported on Tuesday that the drone had been intercepted in flight on 2 October and exploded near the Kurdish and French soldiers when it hit the ground. It was unclear, the French paper said, whether the drone was remotely detonated or carried a timed bomb.
