Iranian Scud missiles fired into Iraq kill several people

BAGHDAD (AFP) - At least 48 Scud missiles fired by Tehran on
Wednesday hit border camps run by Iran's armed opposition
movement in Iraq killing one combatant and several Iraqis,
the People's Mujahadeen said.

"At least one member of the Mujahadeen, Reza Zahmatkesh, was
killed, and several Iraqi civilians died and others were
injured," a spokesman told AFP.

"The Mullahs' regime of Iran launched a new missile attack
at dawn Wednesday against Mujahedeen positions ... which

were hit by at least 44 Scud missiles," said Farid
Suleimani.

Another four Scuds hit two more camps several hours later.

The Iraqi casualties had not been confirmed by official
sources.

Missiles crashed around bases in southern Iraq at Al Habib,
near Basra, Faeza, near the town of Kut, and Al-amara, as
well as at Ashraf, 190 kilometres (115 miles) east of
Baghdad, the spokesman said.

The pounding followed a report by Tehran on Saturday of
clashes in western Iran between Pasdaran revolutionary
guards and a seven-man Mujahadeen unit trying "to infiltrate
into Kermanshah province to carry out terrorist operations".

The organisation admitted six Mujahedeen fighters died in
the clashes, the latest of regular reports of bloodshed.

The Mujahadeen presence in Iraq, like the Iraqi opposition
based in Iran, is a major stumbling block to the
normalisation of relations between Tehran and Baghdad, who
have failed to sign a peace treaty following the end of
their eight-year war in 1988.