A terrorist attack on Rudaw: statement from Rudaw
At 12:05 am on June 25, an attack was made on Rudaw Media Network. The attack was made via a grenade on the Rudaw building on Runaki Street in Erbil, the capital of the Kurdistan Region.
As a result of the terrorist attack an employee in the public relations department, a driver, and three security guards injured, but fortunately their injuries are light. The attack also damaged two Rudaw live coverage vehicles.
If the attack is a threatening message to Rudaw, the terrorist perpetrators of the attack should know that no terrorist attacks will scare the Rudaw employees and staff. You will not stop Rudaw from delivering news, information, and its professional coverage and you will not make our staff stay away from Rudaw. Rudaw was not afraid of any threats in the past and we will not be afraid now or in the future.
We give thanks for the sympathy and concerns of Kurdistan Region President Masoud Barzani and all those leaders, officials, MPs, media agencies, political parties, citizens and personalities, inside and outside of Kurdistan, who have expressed their sympathy with Rudaw Media Network.
In the meantime we thank the security and police agencies of the Kurdistan Region for their follow up and we ask them find the perpetrators and planners of the attack as quickly as possible.
Rudaw Media Network
June 25, 2016
As a result of the terrorist attack an employee in the public relations department, a driver, and three security guards injured, but fortunately their injuries are light. The attack also damaged two Rudaw live coverage vehicles.
If the attack is a threatening message to Rudaw, the terrorist perpetrators of the attack should know that no terrorist attacks will scare the Rudaw employees and staff. You will not stop Rudaw from delivering news, information, and its professional coverage and you will not make our staff stay away from Rudaw. Rudaw was not afraid of any threats in the past and we will not be afraid now or in the future.
We give thanks for the sympathy and concerns of Kurdistan Region President Masoud Barzani and all those leaders, officials, MPs, media agencies, political parties, citizens and personalities, inside and outside of Kurdistan, who have expressed their sympathy with Rudaw Media Network.
In the meantime we thank the security and police agencies of the Kurdistan Region for their follow up and we ask them find the perpetrators and planners of the attack as quickly as possible.
Rudaw Media Network
June 25, 2016