Three workers wounded in drone strike on Iraq's North Rumaila oilfield, sources say


BASRA, Iraq, ⁠April 4 (Reuters) - Two drones ⁠hit the BP-operated North Rumaila ‌oilfield in southern Iraq on Saturday, wounding three Iraqi workers, security ​and energy sources said.

The ⁠attack took ⁠place shortly after another drone hit ⁠storage ‌facilities west of the port city ⁠of Basra that belong to foreign ​oil ‌companies, the sources said.

The drone ⁠strikes ​had no impact on operations in this part of ⁠Iraq's giant Rumaila oilfield, ​as they targeted an equipment storage facility, said two Iraqi ⁠engineers working at the field.

Foreign staff were evacuated following an earlier drone strike on ​the oilfield, sources ⁠told Reuters last month.

(Reporting by ​Aref Mohammed ‌in Basra and Muayad ​Hameed; Editing by William Mallard and Joe Bavier)

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