Thursday 29 December 2011

Turkish air strike results in 23 dead near Kurdish village

According to officials, An air raid nearby a Kurdish village by Turkish warplanes adjacent to the border with Iraq has left minimum 23
people lifeless.

A report said that smugglers had been marked by unmanned drones and mistaken for Kurdish mutineers.
The attack, on Wednesday night, took place nearby the village of Uludere in Sirnak province in south-eastern Turkey. Local officials said barrels of diesel carried by the group had burst. The sufferers had been using mules to cross the border when the instance occurred.

The mayor of Uludere was repeated by Reuters newscast agency as saying there were 30 figures and all had been burned. On the other hand provincial governor Vahdettin Ozkan told, the statistics he had was that more than 20 had lost their breathes.

"A crisis centre is being molded at the section and prosecutors and security officials were sent there," he said Anatolia newscast agency. Smuggling of petroleum and cigarettes is said to be ordinary between villages along the Iraqi border. But mutineers from the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) have crossed the border into Turkey to stage invade Turkish militaries. 

After 24 Turkish warriors were killed in PKK raids in October, Turkish armies replied with a sequence of air and ground attacks.

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