ERBIL, Kurdistan Region — The Kurdistan Region Security Council (KRSC) has announced arrests in the case of the Kirkuk Palace suicide attack on January 31 when four ISIS suicide bombers broke into the Kirkuk Palace Hotel and killed multiple civilians and Peshmerga.

“ISIS masterminds consisting of four have been arrested in Kirkuk in a security and intelligence operation,” according to a KRSC statement.

“With the help of people and the efforts of our tireless security personnel, the security forces successfully managed to capture the perpetrators of the Kirkuk Palace Hotel bombing carried out by four suicide bombers,” the announcement read.

“Following the defeat of a major pre-dawn offensive against the Peshmerga frontlines in southern Kirkuk on January 31, these ISIS cells launched the suicide attack inside Kirkuk on the same day,” It added. “Our forces killed three of the suicide bombers before they detonated their payloads.”

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