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Smoke rises after mortar fire from Syria hit a town in Turkey.
By NBC News staff and wire reports
AKCAKALE, Turkey ? At least three people, including a child, were killed and nine others seriously wounded after mortar fire from Syria hit a town in Turkey Wednesday, an official told Turkish media.
A Reuters witness saw at least eight seriously wounded people being taken to hospital, three of them police officers, after explosions in the town of Akcakale in Sanliurfa province.
Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu briefed United Nations mediator on Syria, Lakhdar Brahimi, about the incident by telephone, the Turkish?Foreign Ministry said in a statement.
Television footage showed a cloud of smoke and dust rising up as residents ran to help the wounded.
"It landed in the middle of a residential area and it hit a house. Three people died, we learned from the hospital," Mayor Abdulhakim Ayhan told CNN Turk television. "The people who were living in the house died, including one woman and child."
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The state-owned Anadolu news agency reported that there had been two explosions.
"Following the first blast, many homes and businesses were damaged. A second blast took place at the same location. According to preliminary reports, at least three people were killed and nine others wounded. Among the wounded were Turkish police officers," Ayhan told Anadolu.
The conflict in neighboring Syria has affected border areas in the past when stray bullets have flown into Turkish territory.
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A mortar bomb fired from Syria damaged homes and workplaces in Akcakale last Friday but there were no deaths.
Turkey beefed up its troop presence and air defenses along the border after Syria shot down a Turkish reconnaissance jet in June.
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In April, Turkey officially reported an incident to the United Nations in which at least five people, including two Turkish officials, were wounded when cross-border gunfire hit a Syrian refugee camp in Kilis, further west along the frontier.
Reuters contributed to this report.
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