Turkish military responds after rocket kills woman in city bordering Syria

Turkey's army bombarded targets across the border in Syria on Jan. 18, hours after rocket fire hit a school garden in the southeastern province of Kilis, killing one woman and wounding a student. 
 
Turkish army radar showed shots were fired into the border province of Kilis from Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) outposts inside Syria. The locations of Katyusha multiple rocket launchers which fired three rockets were detected by the Turkish army.

The military responded with artillery fire for around an hour in kind, with the artillery reportedly destroying the Katyusha target. 

Turkish fire came hours after a rocket projectile from Syria hit a schoolyard in Kilis.

"A woman from the school's cleaning staff lost her life in the explosion while a seventh-grade student at the neighboring school was hospitalized at Kilis State Hospital," the statement said. The wounded student, identified as G.C., was taken into surgery.

Ay?egül Polat, 32, who worked as cleaner at the Eyüp Gökçe ?mam Secondary School, was killed in the rocket fire. 

The blast occurred at 9:30 a.m. on Jan. 18 near the Nazl? Ömer Çetin primary school in the center of Kilis, where four schools are located.

The Kilis Governor's Office said one of three rocket projectiles fired from across the nearby Syrian border fell in the school's courtyard.

Two other rocket projectiles hit empty spaces and inflicted no harm on life or property, the governor's office added.

Military sources indicate that the rocket projectors were fired from ISIL positions in Syria. 

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