Kurdish YPG militia targeted civilians in a rocket attack killing a child in a field in northern Afrin, Turkey's Defense Ministry said Sunday.
The statement said that the terrorist group targeted innocent civilians working in the field by launching eight rocket attacks. While a mother and her child and another villager were initially injured, the child lost her life, it said.
The operation in Afrin – which lies close to the border with Turkey's Hatay province – was widely expected in the wake of Operation Euphrates Shield, which cleared Daesh terrorists from Turkey's border between Aug. 24, 2016, and March Turkey’s military backed by opposition forces seized Afrin, a mainly Kurdish district, from the YPG in March 2018 in a major offensive.
Afrin suffers from a state of insecurity and chaos of weapons proliferation, as the border city frequently witnesses assassinations and kidnappings to blackmail the kidnapped, in addition to car and motorcycle explosions.
Daily Sabah
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