- Title: Shells fired from Syria kills three in border town of Akcakale
- Date: 10th October 2019
- Summary: AKCAKALE, TURKEY (OCTOBER 10, 2019) (REUTERS) VARIOUS OF DAMAGED WINDOW OF A SCHOOL HIT BY ROCKET AMBULANCE ARRIVING AT SITE DAMAGED CAR CAR DRIVING AWAY PEOPLE IN STREET WOMEN AND CHILDREN ENTERING BUILDING DAMAGED CAR WOMAN AND CHILDREN STANDING NEXT TO TRUCK AMBULANCE AND ARMOURED VEHICLE DRIVING IN STREET
- Embargoed: 24th October 2019 14:38
- Keywords: Turkey Syria military operation mortar shells wounded
- Location: AKCAKALE, TURKEY
- City: AKCAKALE, TURKEY
- Country: Turkey
- Topics: Conflicts/War/Peace,Military Conflicts
- Reuters ID: LVA001B0IN2VB
- Aspect Ratio: 16:9
- Story Text:People fled in panic as mortar shells and rockets fired from Syria hit places in border town of Akcakale on Thursday (October 10).
Three people including a child was killed in mortar fire from Syria to Turkish border town of Akcakale on Thursday, hospital and security sources said.
Twelve others were wounded after rockets and mortar shells fired from Syria hit places in towns on the Turkish side of the border, state-owned Anadolu news agency reported.
It said the shells, believed to have been fired from areas controlled by a Kurdish militia in Syria being targeted by Turkish forces, hit sites in the Turkish towns of Akcakale, Birecik, Ceylanpinar and Nusaybin.
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