Turkey "retaliates" at Syria for a fifth day
Turkey has returned artillery fire at Syria for a fifth consecutive day, after mortar from Syria landed in the Turkish border town of Akcakale. The shell landed some 200 meters inside Turkey, AP reported. According to Reuters, it hit near a plant belonging to the Turkish Grain board, several hundred meters away from the city center. No casualties have been reported. These are the latest moves in the already tense relationship between the neighboring countries. The crisis began on Wednesday, when Syrian mortar shells fired from Syria killed a woman and four children from the same family in Akcakale. The shells also wounded at least 13 people.
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