LONDON: A “foreign civilian” was killed in a rocket attack on a military base at the Basra airport, southern Iraq, the U.K’s Ministry of Defence said Monday.
A ministry spokesman said he couldn’t identify the nationality of the victim. The spokesman also said he didn’t know how many rockets were fired. News reports indicated at least three rockets were fired.
The U.K. has around 4,100 troops in southern Iraq, who are due to leave by the end of July. They are training the Iraqi army.
Basra airport is the main military base in the south. At the start of the year, U.K. forces handed control of the base to Iraq. The attack is reportedly the first at the base since December last year.
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