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| Seven Wounded by Syrian Fire at Turkish Border |
| 2013-05-03 |
| [An Nahar] Five Turkish security officers and two civilians were maimed on Thursday after Syrians trying to cross over into Turkey randomly opened fired in a border buffer-zone, officials said. "It started as a minor stone-and-stick clash when our security forces warned Syrians," who were trying to cross the common border in large numbers, said Abdulhakim Ayhan, mayor of the border town of Akcakale. "One police officer is severely injured and the other six were mildly hurt," the mayor added. The group believed to be smugglers clashed with the Turkish police at the buffer-zone, and the bullets fired by the Syrians ricocheted into the Turkish side, another Turkish official said on condition of anonymity. Celalettin Guvenc, the governor of Sanliurfa province in the region, confirmed the injuries but said "we are still trying to identify the perpetrators," in remarks carried by the state-run Anatolia news agency. |
| Posted by:Fred |