Rockets from Syria hit Turkish border town
Two rockets from Syria have hit southeastern Turkish town of Kilis, near the Turkey's border with Syria, wounded three people.
ERBIL, Kurdistan Region (Kurdistan24) - On Thursday, two rockets from Syria hit Kilis, a town in southeastern Turkey—near the Syrian-Turkish border—wounding three people.
A Kurdistan24 reporter near Turkey's southern city of Gaziintep learned from Turkish security forces that three people were wounded when rocket fire from Syria entered Turkish territory, striking the border town of Kilis.
"Two Katyusha rockets hit the town at around 8:45 a.m. local time, and many ambulances have been dispatched to the bombed areas," the sources said.
Police vehicles were deployed in the bombed area amid unconfirmed reports on the casualties.
Additionally, Turkey's leading secular Hurriyet Daily News reported that one of the rockets hit a house where Syrian migrants were living, and two Syrian migrants inside the house were wounded; while the second rocket hit a road and exploded, injuring an unidentified person.
"While the wounded persons were transferred to a nearby hospital, police took security measures around the site of the incident and launched an investigation," Hurriyet Daily News said.
So far no group has claimed responsibility for the attack.
Kilis, which is home to large numbers of Syrian refugees, has suffered repeatedly from cross-border shelling.
On January 18, a female school employee was killed and a female student was wounded when a rocket believed to be fired from Syria struck a school in Kilis.
On March 8, a young child and another person were killed when rocket fire hit the town of Kilis from across the Syrian border; an attack that Ankara blamed on Islamic State militants.
Reporting by Hisham Arafat
Editing by Delovan Barwari