JINHA

MÊRDÎN - Three people, two of them children, have been wounded in an explosion at a bridge in the largely Kurdish town of Nusaybin.

In the town of Nusaybin, in Mardin province, an unexplained explosion took place last night at around 8:30 p.m. Witnesses reported that they heard several gunshots from handguns, immediately followed by an explosion as the nearby bridge was detonated.

The explosion damaged buildings and businesses for a circumference of 500 meters. Three people, two of them children, have been wounded by fragments of glass that struck their bodies during the forceful explosion. Meanwhile, bridge railings have landed in the yards of houses 100 meters away.

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