No casualties were reported, but the shelling set fires to forests and lands belonging to villagers, Kurdistan 24 said.

Last month, Turkey launched Operation Claw-Tiger targeting the PKK in northern Iraq, where the party’s headquarters is located.

“Due to the danger of the area [being targeted by warring parties], no one can go and extinguish the fire,” Ihsan Chalabi, the mayor of Iraq´s Sidakan town, told Kurdistan 24.

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