At least one person was killed and three others wounded when two mortar shells, likely fired from Syria, landed near a school in the Turkish town of Kilis on the border, officials say.
The mayor of Kilis, Hasan Kara, is quoted as saying by Turkey’s NTV television that all schools in the town were evacuated and the shelling had most likely come from Syria.
One of those wounded was in a serious condition, he adds.
Television pictures show the wounded being taken to hospital by ambulance. Windows on the ground floor of the school were smashed by the impact of the blast while one car was severely damaged.
Reports said that the person killed was a school cleaner. The shells reportedly landed in the garden outside the school.
“It seems that the shelling came from the south,” said Kara. “The people should not allow provocations. Kilis residents should stay calm.”
Kilis, a town of just under 100,000, lies just north of the Syrian border, some 10 kilometres (six miles) from the Syrian town of Azaz.
— AFP
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