The death toll from Wednesday's (July 17th) attack on Turkish consular employees in Iraq's Kurdish region has risen to three after one victim died of his wounds, his family told AFP.
The Turkish vice consul and one Iraqi citizen were shot dead by at least one attacker on Wednesday in a restaurant in the northern regional capital of Erbil, a police source said.
The shooting also wounded another Iraqi, 26-year-old Bashdar Ramadan, who died overnight, his cousin said on Thursday.
According to Turkish state media, the lone attacker was dressed in plainclothes and carried two guns when he stormed the restaurant in Erbil's Ainkawa district.
Checkpoints were quickly erected in and around the neighbourhood, but the perpetrators are still on the run.
"The relevant authorities have launched a thorough investigation to find and prosecute the perpetrators of this criminal act," said the Kurdish Regional Government in an online statement.
There was no claim of responsibility for the attack.
