New attack on KDP headquarters in Slemani / Iraqi Kurdistan

April 21, 2014 – MESOP / REUTERS – A second headquarters of the Kurdistan Democratic Party KDP led by Kurdistan president Massoud Barzani became under armed attack by unidentified people in Ibrahim Ahmed area in Slêmanî [Sulaimaniyah] city late Sunday night, Kurdish sources revealed.

In a press statement an KDP official said “The headquarters of the KDP party suffered on Sunday night of fire shooting by five people were traveling in a car, carrying flags of the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan PUK, and then fled to an unknown location”, the National Iraqi News reported. Another headquarters of the fourth branch of KDP in Slêmanî, had been last Saturday evening targeted by fire shoot by unidentified people, injuring two people. Kurdistan Region Prime Minister Nechirvan Barzani described the Sunday’s incident as “an attempt to destabilize Kurdistan’s democratic atmosphere.” “We do not see the incident as the plan of any political group and we assure everyone that the situation is completely under control,” said Barzani on Sunday.