‘No mortar launched during incident’
Regarding press reports about a young girl who was killed in a mortar explosion in the Lice district of Diyarbakır, military spokesman Brig. Gen. Metin Gürak said, “We are upset by the death of a very young civilian.”
He said there was an ongoing investigation launched by the public prosecutor into the incident. “According to initial inspections carried out regarding the incident, it has been found out that no mortar launch was conducted in the region during the incident,” he said.
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