JINHA

ŞIRNEX – As the Turkish state continued an assault on the Kurdish town of Cizre yesterday, police shot three children who left their homes to buy bread. All three children were wounded, one seriously, but were unable to be hospitalized quickly due to the police blockade.

For several days, the Turkish state has maintained a ceaseless police and military assault on the town of Cizre. Cizre is located in Şırnak province, in Northern Kurdistan (in Turkey). The town is under police curfew and has witnessed targeting of civilian lives and residential neighborhoods.

Yesterday, three children left their homes near the Red Madrassah in Cizre’s Kale neighborhood to buy bread. Police raked the children with gunfire from an armored vehicle. The attack left the three wounded, one seriously. Parliamentary representatives from the Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) rushed to the scene, but were stopped by police. When they called an ambulance, emergency operators initially told them that they could not send the ambulance because they have no security.

Eventually, an ambulance managed to take nine-year-old Murat Babayiğit to the Cizre State Hospital. Clashes continued in several neighborhoods yesterday evening.

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