Diyarbakir, Turkey: As many as three people were wounded when rocket fire from an ISIS-controlled area in northern Syria entered Turkish territory, striking the border town of Kilis today, security sources said.
The artillery hit a house in the town centre, they said. Another police source said one person was wounded.
Television footage showed residents wearing pajamas and covered in grey cement dust rushing outside.
NATO member Turkey, which faces multiple security threats, is on heightened alert after four suicide bombings already this year, two of which have been blamed on ISIS, which holds swathes of territory in Iraq and Syria.
Kilis, which is home to large numbers of Syrian refugees, has suffered repeatedly from cross-border shelling. In March, two people, including a young child, were killed in cross-border artillery fire blamed on ISIS in Syria.
The artillery hit a house in the town centre, they said. Another police source said one person was wounded.
Television footage showed residents wearing pajamas and covered in grey cement dust rushing outside.
Kilis, which is home to large numbers of Syrian refugees, has suffered repeatedly from cross-border shelling. In March, two people, including a young child, were killed in cross-border artillery fire blamed on ISIS in Syria.
© Thomson Reuters 2016
Advertisement
COMMENTS
Advertisement
Turkey's Erdogan Vows To "Root Out" Kurdish Militants With "Tanks, Soldiers" Not Looking To Seize Any Syrian Territory, Says Turkey's President US Bombs Weapons Storage Bunker In Syria After Troops Withdraw Bangladesh Imposes Curfew, Deploys Military As 105 Die In Protests "Jindal Group Executive Showed Porn, Groped Me On Flight": Woman To NDTV "This Gave A Seizure To...": Musk On Microsoft CEO's Update On Outage Joe Biden Is The Best Person To Take On Trump, Says His Campaign Wife Among Two Jailed For Life For Man's Murder In Gurugram: Cops 1,100 Flights Cancelled In US As Microsoft Outage Disrupts Operations Track Latest News Live on NDTV.com and get news updates from India and around the world.