Mother and daughter shot by snipers in Silopi

While not a single day passes without murders in the Kurdish region of Turkey, 55-year-old civilian Fatma Ay and her 14-year-old daughter Berfin Ökten were targeted by snipers as they slept on the roofs of their house in Silopi last night.

While not a single day passes without murders in the Kurdish region of Turkey, 55-year-old civilian Fatma Ay and her 14-year-old daughter Berfin Ökten were targeted by snipers as they slept on the roofs of their house in Karşıyaka neighborhood of Şırnak's Silopi district last night.

Snipers positioned on the District Police Headquarters Traffic Registration and Supervision Bureau shot first the daughter and then the mother at around 00:30.

As both were referred to Silopi State Hospital and taken under treatment, the mother couldn't survive despite all the medical efforts, while the girl, wounded in the shoulder, was referred to a hospital in Batman following an immediate treatment here.