Turkey’s interior minister said rocket fire from Syria hit the border town of Karkamis in southeastern Turkey today, killing three people, including a child, and injuring six.

“Three of our citizens have died. One of them was a child, the other was a teacher,” Suleiman Soylu said, speaking on television and promising a “strong response.”

Education Minister Mahmut Ozer, for his part, spoke of “three dead and ten wounded.”

Gaziantep provincial governor Davut Gul previously reported two dead and six injured, two of them seriously, after “five mortars/rockets were fired (…) towards the center of Karkamish.”

The footage released by Turkish media, including the official Anadolu news agency, shows broken school windows and a burning truck.

According to Anadolu, the rockets hit a secondary school and two residential buildings, as well as a truck near the border post connecting Karkamis with the Syrian city of Yarablus.

CNN Turk reported that the rockets were fired from the Kobani region in Syria, which is controlled by the Syrian Kurdish YPG militias.

Yesterday, Sunday, rocket fire from Syria has already hit the Turkish border post, injuring at least eight people – two Turkish soldiers and two Turkish policemen.

Yesterday, Turkey launched airstrikes in northern Iraq and Syria.which killed about 30 people in areas under the control of the Syrian Kurdish forces and the PKK, the PKK, which Ankara accuses of being involved in the November 13 attack in Istanbul, leaving six people dead and 80 injured.

Source: Reuters.