Abdulhamit Taben, found in the street and taken to Iskenderun State Hospital on Wednesday night, was beaten to death, according to police report. While police started an investigation into this incident, Ahmet Taben's body was found in another street of the region.

It was said that the teens collected scrap from garbage for Habip Oral. Oral bludgeoned them frequently. Police arrested Habib Oral late Thursday and detained 4 other suspects in connection with the murders.

Meanwhile, an investigation was started to find the boys' relatives. Some are living in İstanbul, and others are still in Syria.

The number of Syrian and Iraqi refugees in Turkey has reached 2.5 million, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said on Thursday. Many of them live in the Yayladagi refugee camp near the border in Hatay province.

Meanwhile, the anti-narcotics department organized a simultaneous operation on a storage facility in Hatay city center. It is stated that 3, 600,000 Captagon capsules, packed for sale, were found.

Police detained two Turkish citizens and one Syrian citizen who coordinated the transport of Captagon from Syria to Turkey.

It is stated that the 10,926,000 (1 ton, 831 kilogram) Captagon capsule seizure is the largest ever in Turkey.

Police launched an investigation in coordination with international authorities to ensure continuity of the operation.

Captagon is the brand name for the amphetamine phenethylline, a synthetic stimulant. It is especially popular in the Middle East.

While the Gulf countries' appetite for the pill is driving demand, much of the Captagon is produced in Syria. Since 1999, the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime's (UNODC's) annual reports have mentioned Syria as a production and transit point for Captagon to Europe, Turkey, and Lebanon.

According to Turkish military sources, initial findings suggest a technical failure could be connected with the emergency landing of the US unmanned aerial vehicle, mainly known as drone.

After the failure, the drone made an emergency landing near Gülova village in the Kırıkhan town of Hatay, said the military sources.

Security was increased in the region during its landing.

The construction of the wall in the Bükülmez neighborhood of the district was a cooperation between the Hatay Governorate and the Land Force's 2nd Border Regimental Command.

The two-meter-wide concrete blocks weighing 7 tons each are being aligned on the border, just across from Atme town in Syria, using cranes.

Authorities expect the wall that will stretch eight kilometers to be completed soon.

In recent days, Turkish security forces had taken a number of extra measures to prevent illegal crossings into Syria and Iraq.

A 365-kilometer ditch to stop vehicle crossings, a 70-km rampart and a concrete wall stretching for seven kms are among the border security measures, as well as a 22- km accordion barrier.

The authorities also renewed a 145-km wire fence and improved lighting and roads along a 270-km stretch across the border with Syria.

A bomb from Syria had fallen in an area in Hatay province which caused small damage to some buildings and residences.

The chief of staff said that the rocket landed near the Cüdeyde neighborhood, the southern part of Reyhanlı city, from fighting between the Syrian Military and the opposition groups.

The rocket also caused some small damage to near residences and some military equipment as it landed 200 meters west of the 4th Border Battalion of the 2nd Hatay Border Regiment.

“In accordance with our military engagement rules, our artillery units on the border fired into Syrian in response,” the chief of staff said.

The military along Turkey's Syria border often retaliates when munitions from fighting there hit its territory.

The statement said that the Turkish military follows the developments in the region with great concern and stated that it will continue to retaliate within the framework of engagement rules, if further similar incidents happen.

The police, backed by the gendarmerie, acted on a tip-off from the local community that suggested some ISIL militants were being accommodated in an apartment house in İskenderun.

The police raid in the town of İskenderun comes nearly a year after the MIT report that warned about the potential for terror attacks in three of Turkey's provinces: Hatay, Ankara and Istanbul.

Hatay police chief Cengiz Başar personally led the police raid, which was launched early Saturday at 1:00 am.

Police cordoned off the scene, forbidding entry and exit from the area during the operation which was also supported by a jamming device and an armored police vehicle.

Police searched the building under tight security, but did not find any trace, affiliated to the armed group.

The security forces in Hatay have been on alert for a year since the country’s spy service, MIT, released a report suggesting that ISIL-linked suicide bomb attacks in three provinces – Hatay, Ankara, Istanbul – aimed to damage efforts in the Geneva II, an international conference to be held to discuss the ongoing civilian war in Syria.