Monday, April 9, 2012

Gunfire from Syria hits border camp in Turkey

Three people injured in reported shooting as UN-brokered ceasefire due to take effect on Tuesday looks shaky
Gunfire from the Syrian side of the border has hit a refugee camp inside Turkey, wounding at least three people. Two Syrian refugees and one Turkish translator were wounded in Monday's incident when the Kilis border refugee camp in Gaziantep province came under fire from the Syrian side of the border, a Turkish foreign ministry official said. However, it is unclear whether the camp was deliberately targeted. A Turkish foreign ministry official said the Syrian charge d'affaires in Ankara was summoned to the ministry following the incident. "We demanded an end to this (shooting)," the official said. Al Jazeera's Anita McNaught, reporting from Antakya in southern Turkey, said the incident signifies "a remarkable escalation in tensions on this already tense cross-border area"

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