A drone attack targeted Iraqi intelligence services in an upscale residential neighbourhood in central Baghdad on Saturday morning, a senior security official said, reports AFP.

“A drone targeted the headquarters of the Iraqi National Intelligence Service in the Mansour district” at around 0700 GMT, General Saad Maan, head of the Iraqi government’s security media unit, said in a brief statement.

An Iraqi security official, speaking on condition of anonymity, said earlier the attack targeted a “telecommunications building” with the National Intelligence Service.

Another drone, filming the operation, crashed into a private members’ sports club popular with Iraqi elite and foreign diplomats, according to the same source.