A
suspected fighter from the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) group
has been killed while trying to illegally cross into Turkey from Syria,
Turkey's military has said.
A brief statement on
Wednesday said the incident happened on Tuesday, in Kilis province, which
borders Syria.
The army
said that 21 other people were also detained during the incident, nine of them
children.
Turkey has reinforced
its 900km border with Syria and has tightened controls in an attempt to stem penetrations
by ISIL fighters.
Turkish police also
detained eight suspected ISIL members who were supposedly planning to travel to
Europe posing as refugees, the country's state media reported on Wednesday.
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