ISTANBUL: Rockets fired from Syria towards the Turkish border town of Karkamis Monday killed two people and injured six, a Turkish regional governor said.
“Five mortars/rockets were fired… towards the center of Karkamis. Two of our compatriots died. Six of our compatriots were injured, two of them seriously,” Davut Gulthe governor of the southeast Gaziantep Provincesaid on Twitter.
According to Anadolu official news agency, the strikes hit a high school and two houses as well as a truck near the border crossing that connects Karkamis to the Syrian town of Jarablus.
Footage on Anadolu showed smashed windows at a school as well as a burning truck.
On Sunday, rockets fired from Syria injured six policemen and two soldiers when they hit a border crossing.
Turkey carried out airstrikes on Sunday against banned Kurdish militant bases in northern Syria and Iraq, which it said were being used to launch “terrorist” attacks on Turkish soil.
Nighttime raids in northern and northeast Syria have killed at least 31 people, British monitoring group The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights. They were mainly directed against positions held by Syrian Kurdish forces.
The offensive, dubbed Operation Claw-Sword, comes a week after an explosion in central Istanbul killed six people and injured 81, an attack Turkey has blamed on the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK).
The PKK has been waging a bloody insurgency there for decades and is designated a terrorist group by Ankara and its Western allies. But he denied any involvement in the Istanbul explosion.
“Five mortars/rockets were fired… towards the center of Karkamis. Two of our compatriots died. Six of our compatriots were injured, two of them seriously,” Davut Gulthe governor of the southeast Gaziantep Provincesaid on Twitter.
According to Anadolu official news agency, the strikes hit a high school and two houses as well as a truck near the border crossing that connects Karkamis to the Syrian town of Jarablus.
Footage on Anadolu showed smashed windows at a school as well as a burning truck.
On Sunday, rockets fired from Syria injured six policemen and two soldiers when they hit a border crossing.
Turkey carried out airstrikes on Sunday against banned Kurdish militant bases in northern Syria and Iraq, which it said were being used to launch “terrorist” attacks on Turkish soil.
Nighttime raids in northern and northeast Syria have killed at least 31 people, British monitoring group The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights. They were mainly directed against positions held by Syrian Kurdish forces.
The offensive, dubbed Operation Claw-Sword, comes a week after an explosion in central Istanbul killed six people and injured 81, an attack Turkey has blamed on the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK).
The PKK has been waging a bloody insurgency there for decades and is designated a terrorist group by Ankara and its Western allies. But he denied any involvement in the Istanbul explosion.
