Five deaths reported after rockets hit new transit camp outside Baghdad housing members of opposition MEK group

Katyusha rockets fired on a camp housing Iranian dissidents near Baghdad have killed five members of the opposition group, Al Jazeera reported Iraqi security officials saying Saturday.
Five members of the Mujahedeen-e-Khalq (MEK) were killed in Saturday’s attack, two Iraqi security officials said on condition of anonymity.
There was no immediate claim of responsibility for the attack on the transit camp, a former American military base known as Camp Liberty.
The United Nations called for an immediate investigation and said monitors were following up on the deaths, the first confirmed fatalities as a result of violence at the group’s new camp since they moved there last year.
The MEK, whose leadership is based in Paris, said in a statement that six people were killed and 50 wounded.
One Iraqi security official told the AFP news agency that around 40 rockets and mortars were fired into the camp, while the MEK said 35 were launched.
The UN said Martin Kobler, its special envoy, had asked Iraqi authorities to “promptly conduct an investigation into this,” and added: “We have our monitors on the ground to follow up”.
Camp Liberty is home to about 3,000 residents from the MEK who were moved last year, on Iraq’s insistence, from their historic paramilitary camp of the 1980s – Camp Ashraf.
The MEK was founded in the 1960s to oppose the Shah of Iran, and after the 1979 Islamic revolution that overthrew him it took up arms against Iran’s theocratic rulers.
It says it has now laid down its arms and is working to overthrow the government in Tehran through peaceful means.
 “They [MEK] say they’re in danger from the Iranians and the Iraqi government,” Al Jazeera’s Jane Arraf said.
“The UN is trying to relocate them, but ultimately they’re under the protection of the Iraqi government.”
Britain struck the group off its terror list in June 2008, followed by the European Union in 2009 and the US in September 2012.