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SOURCE: INA
HEAD:   iraq accuses iran of violating its sovereignty by bombardment in
        north

      baghdad, aug 24 (ina-pool) iraq friday accused iran of violating
 its sovereignty and international norms by shelling residential
 quarters in the kurds-controlled northern iraq in support of one of
 the two fighting factions.

      reports here said that fightings between two kurdish rivals of
 kurdish democratic party (kdp) and the patriotic union of kurdistan
 (puk) continued in the cities of iraqi kurdish area where various
 kind of weapons were used.

      the iranian artillery started destructive bombardment of the
 residential quarters in qaseri, choman, galala and haj omran, the
 report said.

      it was reported that the iranian bombardment in support of the
 attack of jalal al-talabani, head of puk, targeted the village of
 sedikan and inflicted considerable damages on residential houses and
 public properties of the kurds. more than 100 people have been
 killed.
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