Turkish military responds after rocket kills woman in city bordering Syria

Turkey’s army bombarded targets across the border in Syria on Jan. 18, hours after rocket fire hit a school garden in the southeastern province of Kilis, killing one woman and wounding a student.

Turkish army radar showed shots were fired into the border province of Kilis from Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) outposts inside Syria. 

• The locations of Katyusha multiple rocket launchers which fired three rockets were detected by the Turkish army.

The military responded with artillery fire for around an hour in kind, with the artillery reportedly destroying the Katyusha target.

Turkish fire came hours after a rocket projectile from Syria hit a schoolyard in Kilis.

“A woman from the school’s cleaning staff lost her life in the explosion while a seventh-grade student at the neighboring school was hospitalized at Kilis State Hospital,” the statement said. The wounded student, identified as G.C., was taken into surgery...
 [hurriyetdailynews.com]
18/1/16
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