A rocket fired from an area in Syria held by Islamic State (IS) jihadists slammed into the centre of a Turkish town today, wounding six people including five children, reports said.
The rocket hit a market area in the centre of the Turkish border town of Kilis, shattering windows and causing panic, the Dogan news agency said.
It said six people were wounded, including five children. Five of the wounded are in a good condition but one was badly hurt, Dogan added.
All those wounded were refugees from the war in Syria, who now make up over half of the town's population.
The strike comes one month into an unprecedented incursion into Syria by Turkish forces aimed at rooting IS jihadists out of the border area.
Following the rocket strike, the Turkish army shelled IS targets in Syria with howitzers, the news agency said.
Kilis has come under repeated attack from rocket fire from Syria in the last months, with 22 people losing their lives, over half of them Syrian refugees.
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