Turkish bombardment killed a Kurdish shepherd in northern Iraq early on Friday, a local official said, the first known civilian victim of Ankara's air and ground assault on the region. "He was a shepherd in Bradost district and was killed at dawn in Turkish air strikes," the official from Iraq's autonomous Kurdish region said. On Wednesday, Turkey launched a cross-border operation into the mountainous terrain of northern Iraq where the rebel Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) has rear bases. str/mjg/kir