3 rockets land near Baghdad airport in Iraq

(MENAFN - Trend News Agency) Three Katyusha rockets were fired at Baghdad International Airport area without causing casualties, the Iraqi military said on Thursday, Trend reports citing Xinhua . The attack took place around midnight when three rockets landed on the edges of the airport in southwestern Baghdad, the media office of the Iraqi Joint Operations Command said in a statement. One of the three rockets landed near Abu Ghraib Prison and the second one on an empty area near the Counter-Terrorism Academy, while the third one landed near an Iraqi military base, according to the statement. It also said that the security forces spotted a rocket launcher left on the roof of an abandoned house in the al-Jihad neighborhood near the airport and defused five unfired rockets in the launcher, according to the statement.MENAFN22042021000187011040ID1101966963