The shooting was reported shortly after 2pm local time, and took place at a restaurant in an upmarket area of Iraqi Kurdistan’s capital city. Several officials from the Turkish Consulate General were present at the restaurant when the attack took place.

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Customs office in Kurdistan’s Bashmaq border is busy active in the field of transiting, importing, exporting goods and also passenger’s affairs.

He put the volume of domestic transit of goods from Bashmaq border in the first three months of the current year (March 21 – June 21) at 13,32 tons, valued at $3,595,953.

In addition, 156,771 tons of goods, valued at $87,128,892, were exported from Bashmaq border crossing in the same period, Rahmanipour stressed.

Elsewhere in his remarks, the director general pointed to the volume of goods transited from this province and said, “statistics showed that total volume of goods transited from this province has decreased 15 percent in terms of weight as compared to the last year’s corresponding period.”

Kurdistan province customs office has active branches in Sanandaj, Bashmaq border in Marivan, Siranband border crossing in Baneh which are offering quality customs services to economic activists and entrepreneurs, Director General of Kurdistan province Customs Office Bakhtiar Rahmanipour added.

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