Turkish border town hit by shelling from Syria as campaign intensifies

Record ID: 1436275

  • Title: Turkish border town hit by shelling from Syria as campaign intensifies
  • Date: 11th October 2019
  • Summary: AKCAKALE, TURKEY (OCTOBER 11, 2019) (REUTERS) VARIOUS OF SMOKE BILLOWING EXTERIOR OF DESTROYED BUILDING VARIOUS OF DAMAGE TO INTERIOR OF BUILDING HOLE ON SIDE OF BUILDING VARIOUS OF DEBRIS ON GROUND BROKEN WINDOW (SOUNDBITE) (Turkish) UNNAMED LOCAL RESIDENT, SAYING: "This (piece from a bomb) came from Syria, from the other side (of the border). It hit us and destroyed this place. This piece from a bomb fell on the ground and the windows were smashed. I mean, many of our cookware dispersed, it damaged the windows and the furniture. Fortunately, no one was at home." VARIOUS OF DESTROYED WALLS OF HOUSE
  • Embargoed: 25th October 2019 18:23
  • Keywords: Turkey Syria Kurds Akcakale
  • Location: AKCAKALE, TURKEY
  • City: AKCAKALE, TURKEY
  • Country: Turkey
  • Topics: Conflicts/War/Peace
  • Reuters ID: LVA001B0NNBD3
  • Aspect Ratio: 16:9
  • Story Text: Local residents in the Turkish border town of Akcakale are dealing with the fallout from Turkey's military offensive in Syria as mortars hit residential buildings in the area.
    Turkey says nine civilians have been killed on its side of the frontier by retaliatory shelling.
    Reuters footage shows destroyed residential buildings in the southeastern Turkish town but was unable to independently verify when the shelling took place.
    Speaking on Friday (October 11) one resident said a bomb which came from the Syrian side of the border smashed windows and it was ''fortunate, no one was home.''
    Turkey intensified its air and artillery strikes on Kurdish militia in northeast Syria on Friday, escalating an offensive that has drawn warnings of humanitarian catastrophe and turned Republican lawmakers against U.S. President Donald Trump.
    The incursion, launched after Trump withdrew U.S. troops who had been fighting alongside Kurdish forces against Islamic State militants, has opened a new front in the eight-year-old Syrian civil war and drawn fierce international criticism.
    A war monitor gave a death toll approaching 100 from the first days of the assault, including 17 civilians as well as dozens of Kurdish fighters and Turkish-backed Syrian rebels.
    (Production: Khalil Ashawi, Aiden Nulty)
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