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Blast hits health centre near Syria border, several wounded - Turkish official


    ISTANBUL (Reuters) - Several people were wounded on Monday after an explosion rocked a health centre near a school in Turkey's southeastern border province of Kilis, a government official said, while some local media reports said two people were killed.

    The authorities were investigating whether the blast was caused by a mortar shell from Syria, the official told Reuters.

    Turkey's Haberturk newspaper said two people were killed and two wounded after the blast and that it was caused by a shell fired from Syria landing in a school garden.

    (Reporting by Orhan Coskun; Writing by Humeyra Pamuk; Editing by Nick Tattersall)