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2 more civilians massacred in Cizre

 
8 January
16:01 2016

ŞIRNAK (DİHA) - In Cizre district of Şırnak where a state of siege continues in its 26th day, attacks by state forces are claiming more civilian lives every day.

In Nur neighborhood where popular self-rule resistance endures despite all the intensified attacks by Turkish military and police forces, fire opened from armored vehicles left two civilians dead.

Tayfur Yaşlı and Şivan Mungan have been found dead today in the wake of last night's uninterrupted agression with tanks and heavy weapons.

Death toll rises to 37

While residents have retrieved the bodies of two civilians from the scene, an ambulance is being waited for the delivery of the two to hospital. Meanwhile, the death toll of civilians massacred by state forces in ongoing 26-days curfew has risen to 37.

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