Blast on Turkey-Syria border kills at least seven: official

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Source: Reuters

An explosion in a vehicle at a border crossing on Turkey's border with Syria killed seven people and wounded at least 33 on Monday, a Turkish official said.

"There are at least seven dead, 33 wounded and that number could go up ... We don't know whether this was a suicide bomb or whether a car that was smuggling petrol across the border blew up," the official told Reuters.

Read more: http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/02/11/us-syria-crisis-turkey-toll-idUSBRE91A0K220130211

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1. Aljazeera: The explosion was in an area controlled by rebels with cross border traffic.

"There was an explosion in the no-man's zone. It was not a mortar attack. It was very strong," a Turkish Foreign Ministry spokesman said.

The Cilvegozu border gate, several miles outside the town of Reyhanli, sits opposite the Syrian gate of Bab al-Hawa, which the rebels captured last July.

Refugees cross back and forth and Turkish lorries also deliver goods into no-man's land between the two gates, where they are picked up by Syrians.


Dozens of ambulances were dispatched to the scene at the Cilvegozu border crossing

http://www.aljazeera.com/news/middleeast/2013/02/2013211141344570592.html

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2. Why assume it was smuggling "petrol" across the border?