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Turkey strikes at IS targets after rockets hit border town

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ANKARA - Turkish artillery units on Tuesday shelled Islamic State group targets across the border in Syria, officials said, hours after rockets fired from Syria struck a Turkish border town, killing a man and wounding seven people.

 

Two rockets hit the town of Kilis early in the day in the third such cross-border incident in the past five days. One rocket struck a guesthouse while the second landed on an empty field near a bus terminal, the state-run Anadolu Agency said. Eight people were wounded and one of them - a 42-year-old municipality employee - later died in hospital, the agency reported.

 

Authorities evacuated children from a nearby youth center that has been turned into a temporary school for Syrian refugees, the report said.

 

 

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