Iraq violence: Iranian exiles hit by intense rocket fire
A former military base in Iraq housing exiled Iranian opposition members has come under intense rocket fire, Iraqi and Iranian officials say. The People's Mujahedin of Iran says 23 of its members were killed in the attack in addition to three policemen, according to BBC.
About 80 missiles struck the former US base known as Camp Liberty, close to Baghdad airport, according to the PMOI.
No group has yet said it carried out the attack.
The People's Mujahedin Organisation of Iran (PMOI) has been in exile since the Islamic revolution of 1979.
The Camp Liberty base came under rocket fire in December 2013 and in February 2013.
The 23 reported deaths have not been independently verified.
US Secretary of State John Kerry confirmed in a statement that residents of the camp were killed and injured, but he did not specify how many.
Police say that six Katyusha rockets landed inside the perimeter of the airport without causing damage, while six others landed on the base inside Camp Liberty, a former US military base.
Sources said that the rockets were fired from an area west of the airport.