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| Turkey-Syria: 'One dead' in shelling near border school | |
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| At least one person has been killed after a mortar shell landed near a school in south-eastern Turkey. | |
| The shell was reportedly fired from Syria and hit a school garden in the border province of Kilis, with at least one other person wounded, a government statement said. | |
| Two other rockets landed in an empty area nearby, it said. | |
| Cross-border incidents have been frequent as a result of the Syrian conflict. | Cross-border incidents have been frequent as a result of the Syrian conflict. |
| The person dead has been identified as a female school employee, a statement from the provincial governor's office said. | |
| A wounded female student was taken into surgery, it said. | |
| The mayor of Kilis, Hasan Kara, said the shelling most probably came from Syrian territory. | |
| Turkish military sources told Reuters news agency that Turkey's army had retaliated "in kind" to the attack. | |
| Turkish towns next to the border have frequently seen artillery fire spill over during Syria's civil war. | |
| In September, one Turkish soldier was killed in Kilis by cross-border fire from Syria. |