HPG

Kurdistan People's Defence Forces

TO THE PRESS AND PUBLIC

Our YJA-Star guerrillas carried out synchronous actions on the military stations of Rubarok, Girana, two other new builded military stations and a military base responsible of securing these two military stations/Semdinli central, on 23 August at 15:00 hour. As a result of these actions, 1 A4 and 1 MG3 positions have been destroyed; 7 enemy soldiers, including a military officer, killed; and, 3 of them heavily, total of 9 others wounded. While enemy forces carried their corpses of killed and wounded soldiers to the district of Yuksekova centre, also carried out intensive bombardments on the surrounding areas of the actions took place, the Hill of Xwede and the area of Dola Zeyte, with war-planes, Tanks and cobra type helicopters. In mean time, the same areas also bombarded with obus and mortars, where a bush-fire began and still continues.

YJA-Star Press Centre

24 August 2012