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Several wounded in Turkey as mortar hits school near Syria border

Several people were wounded and at least one feared killed after a mortar shell which appeared to have been fired from Syria struck a school in Turkey's southeastern border province of Kilis, security sources and local media reports said.

Footage broadcast on the website of the Hurriyet newspaper showed what appeared to be a body lying by the door of the school in Kilis town, the provincial capital, as shocked women and children were escorted from the building.

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