RAIDS Turkey carried out airstrikes in northern Iraq and Syria on Sunday that left around 30 dead
This photo made available by the Turkish agency DHA on November 21, 2022 shows the wreckage of a burnt out truck after being hit by one of the rockets fired from northern Syria at Karkamis district in Turkey. — Kadir GUNES/DHA
Rocket fire from Syrian territory targeted Monday the Turkish border town of Karkamis (South-East), killing three people including a child and six injured, announced the Turkish Interior Minister. “Three of our citizens lost their lives. One of them is a child, another is a teacher,” Süleyman Soylu live at; television, promising a “strong response” The Minister of Education, Mahmut Özer, for his part evoked “Three dead and 10 injured”.
Gaziantep Province Governor Davut Gül previously reported two dead and six injured, including two serious ones, after “five mortars/rockets were fired; fired (…) towards the center of Karkamis”.
Turkish air raids in Syria
Images published by Turkish media, including the official Anadolu news agency, show the shattered windows of an establishment school and a heavyweight in flames. According to Anadolu, the rockets hit a high school and two houses, as well as a truck near the border post that connects Karkamis to the Syrian town of Jarablus.
Rocket fire from Syria had already been detected. reached a Turkish border post on Sunday, injuring at least eight people – two Turkish soldiers and six policemen. Turkey led air raids in northern Iraq and Syria on Sunday that killed around 30 people in several regions under the control of Syrian Kurdish forces and the PKK, the Kurdistan Workers’ Party, accused s by Ankara to have sponsored the attack which killed six people and injured 80 on November 13 in Istanbul.