Rotorua Daily Post

Kurds retaliate

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Suspected Kurdish militants in Syria fired rockets across the border into

Turkey yesterday, killing at least two people and wounding 10 others, Turkish officials said. The attack followed deadly airstrikes by Turkey on suspected militant targets in Syria and Iraq. One of the rockets landed near a school in the town of Karkamis in Gaziantep, and the explosion

smashed the window of a teachers’ room, killing a 22-year-old teacher, Interior Minister Suleyman Soylu said. A 5-year-old boy was killed when a house in Karkamis was also hit in the attack. A soldier and seven Turkish police officers were wounded overnight in separate

shelling by suspected Kurdish militants in nearby Kilis, Soylu said. The Syrian Observator­y for Human Rights, an opposition war monitor, reported that Turkish warplanes resumed airstrikes yesterday, hitting several areas including near the border town of Kobane. It said

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