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Booby-Trapped Drone Shot Down over Erbil, Iraq

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Baghdad, July 25 (IANS) A booby-trapped drone was shot down on Saturday over Erbil, the capital of Iraq’s semi-autonomous Kurdistan region, a Kurdish security source said. The drone was intercepted in the afternoon by the air defence system at the US Consulate in Erbil, with no casualties reported, the source told Xinhua on condition of anonymity.Erbil has come under a series of drone attacks in recent days, with the US Consulate and the international coalition base near Erbil International Ai…