TURKISH war planes targeted children paddling in a pool near a popular tourist resort in Iraqi Kurdistan on Thursday in a sickening attack which killed at least three people and injured eight others.

Footage taken by the brother of writer Jil Swani showed families splashing about in water in a picnic area in Sulaymaniyah, with the sound of children laughing unexpectedly pierced by the roar of jet engines.

The footage ends abruptly aqs missiles struck the area causing panic and chaos as people fled.