The spate of rocket attacks targetting the fortified Green Zone do not seem to end.
In another attack, two Katyusha rockets hit the highly secured area in Baghdad, reported Iraq’s state news agency citing security forces on Sunday.
According to the report, the C-RAM defence system destroyed one rocket in the air while the other landed near the area's festivals arena. It caused damage to two cars, it added.
No casualties reported, says Iraqi Defense Ministry Ali Jawad | 23.02.2021
BAGHDAD
A rocket attack targeted Baghdad’s heavily fortified Green Zone, an area that hosts most foreign diplomatic missions including the US embassy, Iraq s Defense Ministry said Monday. Two Katyusha rockets landed in the Green Zone area in Baghdad, no casualties reported, the ministry said in a statement.
A security source told Anadolu Agency that one of the rockets landed near the headquarters of Iraq s National Security Service while the other landed near a presidential palace in the area.
He added that several vehicles were damaged in the attack.
So far, no group has claimed responsibility.
The 13-year-old reportedly helped his older brother dispose of the body.
The 27-year-old, who cannot be named in order to protect his minor brother s identity, appeared before Zwelitsha Magistrate s Court on robbery and murder charges on Monday.
The older brother is in custody, pending a bail application and the minor is in the custody of his mother.
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