UPDATE: Four killed in drone attack on Khor Mor gas field

SULAIMANIYA/ERBIL - Four people were killed and two injured in a drone attack on the Khor Mor gas field Friday evening, causing the shutdown of the field and the near-total loss of electricity service throughout Iraq's Kurdistan region.

Khor Mor has been attacked eight times in less than two years, and the Iraqi government has never published the results of its investigations or held anyone accountable. Friday’s attack was another dramatic illustration of the state’s inability to establish a monopoly on violence or apply the rule of law to a range of politically connected paramilitary and militia groups.

In a joint statement issued about an hour after the attack, the KRG Ministry of Electricity and Ministry of Natural Resources said gas flows from Khor Mor had been entirely halted "due to a drone attack... resulting in the loss of roughly 2,500 megawatts of power."

The statement did not give a timeline for the resumption of gas flows.