One killed, two wounded after rockets fired from Syria hit Kilis
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One person was killed, while 2 others were wounded after two Katyusha rockets fired from Syrian territory hit the southeastern border province of Kilis on Monday.18-year-old Syrian national Nur Derviş was killed, while fellow Syrian Emine Asseni, 36, and Turkish national Mustafa Mutluer, 31, were wounded in the second rocket attack that hit the Kazım Karabekir neighborhood around 7:12 p.m.

The injured were taken to Kilis State Hospital. Police and rescue teams and ambulances were also dispatched to the area.

The rockets also caused a fire to erupt on the ground floor of a 3-story apartment close to the scene.The Turkish military returned fire into Syria, hitting Daesh targets in the subdistricts of Suran, Arshak, Ikdakh and Ihtimalat , killing 50 terrorists.

Turkey has been under indiscriminate rocket attacks from Syria since mid-January.

In the province of Kilis alone, a total of 18 people have been killed and 60 others have been wounded as a result.

The distance between Kilis city center and the Syrian border is less than four kilometers in some areas.

The rockets are believed to have been fired from a Daesh-controlled region in Syria, where Daesh and Syrian opposition have been fighting to expand their control over the territory between the towns of Azaz and al-Rai since early April.

Occasional stray rockets and mortars land in southern and southeastern Turkey due to the conflict in neighboring Syria. Despite a ceasefire in the country, violence still persists in the area.

Kilis, which is home to large numbers of Syrian refugees exceeding its own population, has suffered repeatedly from cross-border shelling. The rockets became an almost daily occasion in the small town where locals recently rallied for more security measures.

Under Turkey's rules of engagement, the military responds immediately by shelling Daesh positions in Syria.