ARBIL: Gunmen killed three people including the Turkish vice consul to Iraq's autonomous Kurdish region in an attack Wednesday in the regional capital of Arbil, a police source told AFP.

"Three people, including the Turkish vice consul, were killed in an armed attack targeting the consul and the consulate's employees in a restaurant in Arbil," the source said.

Turkey's state media Anadolu said an "employee of Turkey's consulate in Arbil" was killed in the northern city.—AFP