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Two mortar shells landed in Turkish border town, no casualties

Two more mortar shells fall into the Turkish border town after Sunday's mortar shell explosion which injured three people

Ersin Çelik
16:28 - 29/09/2014 Monday
Update: 16:44 - 29/09/2014 Monday
Yeni Şafak
Two mortar shells landed in Turkish border town, no casualties
Two mortar shells landed in Turkish border town, no casualties

Two mortar shells dropped into the Turkish border town of Suruç,on Monday, where thousands of Syrian Kurds swarmed to in fear of an attack on their town. 



The army has immediately deployed 35 tanks in reaction to the mortar shells, that are believed to have been fired from the strategic Syrian town of Ain al-Arab, known as Kobane, during the clashes between the Kurdish militia and members of the Islamic State and Iraq, or ISIL.



The first mortar shell fell near a place from which the reporters and security forces were deployed in the Mürşitpınar neighborhood. After five minutes, the second mortar shell hit a vacant field near a park which turned into a housing center for Syrian refugees who fled from the battleground into Turkey.



No casulties have been reported after the explosions increased the city residents' anxiety.


However, three people had been injured when an artillery shell hit a house in the Alanyurt neighborhood in Suruç. They had been taken to Suruç state hospital.



Several military tanks and armored vehicles were deployed in the spot where shell explosions reportedly landed. A cloud of dust enveloped Kobani, which is just an eyeshot of the Turkish border, while the sound of sporadic artillery and gun fire echoed through the hills along the Syrian border with Turkey.

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