Afp, Arbil

Three civilians were killed yesterday in a Turkish drone attack on a refugee camp in northern Iraq in an area Turkish President recently threatened to “clean up”, a Kurdish lawmaker said.

Rashad Galali, a Kurdish MP from Makhmur, told AFP the strike targeted “a kindergarten near a school” in the UN-supported camp that houses Kurdish refugees from Turkey.

“Three civilians were killed and two wounded,” he said.

Earlier this week Erdogan compared Makhmur to the Mount Qandil region along Iraq’s eastern frontier, where Turkey’s outlawed Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) has rear bases.

“The issue of Makhmur is as important to us as Qandil... because Makhmur has become the incubator of Qandil... and if we don’t intervene the incubator will continue producing (terrorists),” he said.