A former government minister, the deputy governor of Erbil Governorate and the city's police chief were among those killed at the offices of the Kurdistan Region's main political groups, the Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP) and the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan (PUK).
Several high-ranking individuals, including a former government official and the police chief of Erbil, were slain at the headquarters of the two dominant political parties in the Kurdistan Region, the KDP and PUK.