The Kurdistan Region Security Council reveals the details of the assassination of Brigadier General Muhammad Mirza at the hands of PKK militants

ARK News… The Kurdistan Region Security Council announced the details of the car explosion of Brigadier General Muhammad Mirza in Zakho, last Sunday, July 23, 2023, stressing that he was assassinated in a terrorist act by the explosion of a bomb that was planted in his car.

"After investigating the incident by their respective teams, in order to know the person and group who carried out this act, there is evidence confirming that they were sent by the PKK," the council said in a statement.

It added, "On the morning of July 23, 2023, a white Hyundai Tucson with a fake license plate to (avoid surveillance cameras and checkpoints) entered a side road into the city of Zakho, and monitored the house and car of Brigadier General Muhammad Mirza."

It continued, "At four o'clock in the morning, an explosive device was planted in the car of Brigadier General Muhammad Mirza in front of his house," noting that "at 7:49 in the evening on July 23, the car was detonated by means of a remote control in a public street in the city of Zakho."

The Council indicated that "they had previously received complete information through the institutions affiliated with the Council that the leadership of the Kurdistan Workers' Party plans to target a number of officers of the Security Council of the Kurdistan Region, and for this purpose, the Kurdistan Workers' Party trained a number of people on how to make and plant bombs, and also tried to bring them into Kurdistan Region".

The Kurdistan Region Security Council condemned this "terrorist act," stressing that "the perpetrators of this cowardly act will pay the price wherever they are, and they will reach their legal punishment," revealing that "the appropriate measures have been taken."

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