The trio was from the village of Nerwai Sito near Amedi in Duhok province. They were targeted by the Turkish bombings while they were visiting their orchards and groves in the village which lies on the Kurdistan Region-Turkey border.
Naef Nerwai, head of Shiladze Asayesh (Security) told Rudaw that “for several days the three brothers had gone missing, so some of their cousins pursued them. After they went to the spot, they realized that the three had been killed by Turkish airstrikes.”
According to Nerwai, the maimed bodies are on their way back to Shiladze.
Bewar Jamti, who is a close associate of the deceased, told Rudaw they were married and had inhabited Shiladze town.
Rudaw was told the three are civilians. This is not the first time that Turkish airstrikes killed civilians in Amedi region. Their deaths increase the number of civilians killed by Turkish airstrikes to seven in 2018.
Due to frequent Turkish airstrikes in Amedi over the past 20 years, some 300 villages in Amedi have been emptied. However, people go back to their villages to do agriculture.
With their headquarters in Qandil, the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) uses the mountainous border areas of the northern Kurdistan Region to operate.
Turkey intensified airstrikes and operations in March, pushing 20 kilometers across the international border and controlling at least eight mountaintops.
