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UPDATE: Four killed in drone attack on Khor Mor gas field

Four people were killed and two injured in a drone attack that has caused the Khor Mor gas field to shut down, taking three-quarters of Iraqi Kurdistan's electricity supply offline.
The Khor Mor LPG plant in Iraqi Kurdistan in May 2013. (JACOB RUSSELL/Metrography/Iraq Oil Report)

SULAIMANIYA/ERBIL - Four people were killed and two injured in a drone attack on the Khor Mor gas field Friday evening, causing the shutdown of the field and the near-total loss of electricity service throughout Iraq's Kurdistan region.

Khor Mor has been attacked eight times in less than two years, and the Iraqi government has never published the results of its investigations or held anyone accountable. Friday’s attack was another dramatic illustration of the state’s inability to establish a monopoly on violence or apply the rule of law to a range of politically connected paramilitary and militia groups.

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