{One woman killed and several others injured in Kilis in explosion blamed by government officials on ISIL.}<\/p>\n
Rockets have struck a school in Kilis, a city in southern Turkey near the Syrian border, killing at least one female staff member and injuring several others, including a pupil.<\/p>\n
Police were investigating Monday’s explosion, which government officials blamed on rockets fired from across the border in Syria.<\/p>\n
Al Jazeera’s Andrew Simmons, reporting from the scene in Kilis, said: “One female staff member has died, and a female student in her teens has been critically injured and is in the hospital being treated. Two other people have been injured.<\/p>\n
“This was a rocket attack and not a long-range mortar as some have been reporting.”<\/p>\n
Turkish authorities identified the school as Eyup Gokce Imam Middle School.<\/p>\n
The semi-official Anadolu news agency said the woman who was killed was a school janitor, adding that another three people wounded in the attack were being treated at the Kilis State Hospital.<\/p>\n
Our correspondent quoted local officials as saying the rocket was fired from Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) positions “less than 20km away from the Syrian border.<\/p>\n
“There have been previous attacks along the border, but not anything like this,” he said.<\/p>\n
“It is still unclear if the attack was an accident or on purpose.”<\/p>\n
Istanbul attack<\/p>\n
Last week a suicide bomber blew himself up among groups of tourists in the historic centre of Istanbul, killing at least 12 people, including 10 Germans. <\/p>\n
Ahmet Davutoglu, Turkey’s prime minister, said on Wednesday that the attacker was an ISIL member who had entered Turkey from Syria as a refugee.<\/p>\n
ISIL has not claimed responsibility for the attack.<\/p>\n
Davutoglu also said the Turkish army had fired at least 500 times on ISIL targets in Syria and Iraq following the Istanbul attack, killing about 200 fighters.<\/p>\n
Turkey has become a target for ISIL, with two bombings last year blamed on the armed group, in the town of Suruc near the Syrian border and in the capital Ankara.<\/p>\n
The second blast killed more than 100 people.<\/p>\n
Source:Al Jazeera:[Rockets strike Turkish school near Syria border->http:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/news\/2016\/01\/turkish-school-hit-rockets-syrian-border-160118130650000.html]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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