Turkey returns back fire on Syrian border

August 15 2013 15:42:49

Turkey returns back fire on Syrian border

REYHANLI

Turkey returned fire earlier today on a smugglers’ group after it opened fire on a military unit in the border town of Reyhanlı’s Kuşaklı district. DHA photo

Turkey returned fire earlier today on a smugglers’ group after it opened fire on a military unit in the border town of Reyhanlı’s Kuşaklı district.

A military unit intervened last night against a group of 1,150 smugglers, 150 of whom were on horses as they were attempting to traffic drugs from Syria into Turkey. The military unit returned fire after 15 to 20 shots were fired by undetermined people on soldiers from Kuşaklı.

The soldiers warned the group both in Turkish and in Arabic before the events erupted, according to daily Hürriyet.

Meanwhile, a soldier at the same location who was located next to gasoline cans hit by fire from smugglers has been heavily injured.

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