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Explosion at Turkish-Syrian border gate kills 12

11.02.2013 [21:46]
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Baku, February 11 (AZERTAC). At least 12 civilians were killed and 28 others were wounded Feb. 11 in a blast at the Cilvegözü border gate on the Turkish-Syrian border, in the southern province of Hatay's Reyhanlı district.

Deputy Prime Minister Bülent Arınç said three of the 12 people killed in the blast were Turks. The explosion occurred in a car that came from Syria, and had not yet entered Turkey, in the buffer zone where humanitarian aid for Syrians is processed.

Twenty-eight people were wounded in the blast, Arınç said, adding that 13 of them were in critical condition.

Reyhanlı Mayor Hüseyin Şanverdi told the CNNTürk news channel that the blast occured in a car with a Syrian license plate.

Adnan Korkmaz, the regional customs manager in charge of the Cilvegözü border gate, told CNNTürk that the explosion occured in the buffer zone where humanitarian aid for Syrians is processed.

He said the car that exploded did not leave or enter Turkey, but rather had not yet entered the customs zone on the Syrian side of the frontier.

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