BAGHDAD, Feb 21 (NNN-NINA) – Three Katyusha rockets, yesterday landed on an Iraqi military airbase, in Iraq’s Salahudin province, a provincial security source said.
The attack took place in the evening, when the Katyusha rockets landed in Balad airbase, some 90 km north of the Iraqi capital Baghdad, Mohammed al-Bazi, from the provincial police, said.
One of the rockets struck a building, used by a company contracting with U.S. forces at the base, causing damage to the building and wounding an Iraqi civilian, working for the company, al-Bazi, said.
The other two rockets landed in an empty area inside the airbase without causing casualties, he added.
Balad airbase is the largest military airbase in Iraq and was known by the U.S. forces as Logistics Support Activity (LSA) Anaconda. The airbase housed many U.S. troops and advisors of a U.S. company, operating the Iraqi F-16 jet fighters, but they withdrew more than a year ago after the airbase came under a series of rocket attacks by unidentified militias.
No group has so far claimed responsibility for the attack, but the Iraqi military bases, housing U.S. troops across Iraq, as well as, the U.S. embassy in the Green Zone, have been frequently targeted by mortar and rocket attacks.
