Detonation of a car bomb claimed the life of a person and left four others injured in Hewler (Erbil), the capital of the Kurdistan Region of Iraq, on Friday.

According to an official statement by the anti-terror service, the driver was killed as a result of the detonation of a bomb placed in a car, which also injured two children and two women.

While the identity of the victims has not been announced yet, a spokesperson for the Kurdistan regional government stated that security forces launched an investigation into the attack.

Citing an official of the Hewler Asayish (Local Security Forces), AFP reported that the driver killed in the attack was an officer in the anti-terror service of Sulaymaniyah.