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NEWS CENTER - After Turkish warplanes bombed the village of Zergelê in the Qandil Mountains of Iraq, the death toll has risen to nine.

Turkish jets started bombing the village of Zergelê at 4:00 a.m. today. The planes were bombing the village as part of an assault on the Medya Defense Zones, held by Kurdish guerrillas. Eight rockets targeted homes in the village. A reporter for news agency Rojnews in the region reports that many houses have been destroyed.

Since villager Mihemed Emindied in hospital after the bombing, the death toll of the attack has now risen to nine, according to the Rojnews reporter on the scene.

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