Turkey blames PKK after nine people killed at water park in area where there have been frequent clashes
The bodies of nine tourists killed in a shelling attack in northernhave been flown to Baghdad, as up to 23 survivors were treated in hospital and a political row intensified over who was responsible.
In phone videos taken at the time of the attack, at a water park where tourists from the plains to the south had sought respite from the baking summer, the sound can be heard of the impact of what appears to have been artillery. Iraq’s prime minister, Mustafa al-Kadhimi, received some of the bodies at Baghdad airport as anger mounted in the Iraqi capital and in Karbala, the Shia shrine city in central Iraq where many of the victims were from. Coffins carrying the dead were draped with Iraqi flags and flown in on a military aircraft, a sign of the political importance Baghdad has attached to the incident.
Authorities in Erbil were examining whether Turkish gunners had fired at the tourist group after mistaking them for guerrillas, whether PKK members had been in the area, or whether the militia group itself had been responsible. The PKK has a strong presence in the area but is not known to have artillery pieces there.
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