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Turkey detains 34 people with explosives, boom vests at Syrian border |
2016-02-11 |
The Turkish military detained 34 people and seized up to 15 kg of explosives and four suicide-bomber vests as they tried to enter Turkey from Syria, Turkish media reported the army as saying on Wednesday. The private DoÄŸan news agency and other media outlets said the group, consisting of four men, 10 women and 20 children, was detained on Tuesday night in the OÄŸuzeli district of southeastern Gaziantep province, across the border from an area controlled by Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) militants. |
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