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Shafaq News-
Basra
Iranian
missiles struck the Abdali border crossing between Kuwait and Iraq on Thursday,
a security source in the southern Iraqi province of Basra told
Shafaq News.
The missiles
crossed Iraqi airspace before landing inside the Kuwaiti crossing, according to
the same source, who described the attack as retaliation for an earlier
bombardment of the Shalamcheh area inside Iranian territory.
Kuwaiti
authorities closed the crossing following the strike.
The
Shalamcheh crossing on the Iran-Iraq border came under missile attack early
Thursday, killing two people and wounding 11, according to the deputy governor
of Iran’s Khuzestan province, who attributed the strike to the United States.
Iranian media reported the casualties were pilgrims traveling to Iraq for
Arbaeen commemorations. Iraqi authorities announced the resumption of
operations at the crossing after a temporary halt.
Basra
province sits at Iraq’s southern tip, bordering Iran to the east and Kuwait to
the south. Shalamcheh, on the Iranian border opposite Basra city, is a main
transit point for Iranian pilgrims traveling to Shiite shrine cities in Iraq,
while Abdali, in Kuwait’s northern Al-Jahra province, is the principal
land crossing for passenger and freight traffic with Iraq and faces the Iraqi
crossing at Safwan.