Rocket hits Turkey's Kilis from Syria, injuries civilians

ERBIL, Kurdistan Region (Kurdistan24) - On Thursday, a rocket targeted the market of the Kurdish city of Kilis located in southern Turkey on Syrian border.

According to security forces, a targeted rocket was fired from Syrian border in an Islamic State (IS) controlled to Kilis which straddles the Syrian border

Turkish media sources reported that five children and an adult were wounded in the rocket fire that hit a marketplace in the Kilis city.

Ambulances have rushed to the scene and transferred the injured people to nearest hospitals.

So far no one has claimed responsibility of the attack.

According to the Turkish media, Turkish artillery has started shelling the area from which, “Daesh fired a rocket into Kilis.”

This is the fourth time this year that the Kurdish city of Kilis is hit by rockets fired from inside the IS-held territories.

On April 7, two rockets from Syria hit Kilis, a town in southeastern Turkey—near the Syrian-Turkish border—wounding three people.

Kilis, which is home to a large number of Syrian refugees has suffered repeatedly from cross-border shellings.

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.

Editing by Ava Homa

(Baxtiyar Goran contributed to this report)