Shafaq News-Kuwait/ Basra (Updated at 15:22)
“Hostiledrones” attacked the Abdali border crossing with Iraq at midday Thursday,causing material damage and no injuries, Kuwait's Defense Ministry said.
In astatement, ministry spokesman Colonel Saud Abdulaziz al-Atwan said explosiveordnance disposal and inspection teams from the Ground Forces carried out sweepand clearance operations and removed drone debris under approved technicalprocedures.
Al-Atwan didnot identify the group behind the attack.
Earlier Thursday, a security source in the southern Iraqi province of Basra told ShafaqNews that Iranian missiles had struck the crossing after passing through Iraqiairspace, in retaliation for an earlier bombardment of the Shalamcheh areainside Iranian territory which killed two people, including an armycaptain, and wounded 11, according to Iranian media outlets.
Basraprovince sits at Iraq's southern tip, bordering Iran to the east and Kuwait tothe south. Shalamcheh, on the Iranian border opposite Basra city, is a maintransit point for Iranian pilgrims traveling to Shiite shrine cities in Iraq,while Abdali, in Kuwait's northern Al-Jahra province, is Kuwait's principalland crossing for passenger and freight traffic with Iraq and faces the Iraqicrossing at Safwan.