Mother killed by mortar fire in curfew-hit Turkish city

A mother of three was killed on Sunday when a mortar shell hit her apartment in a city in Turkey's Kurdish-majority south-east that has been under curfew for a month. Melek Alpaydin, 38, was eating breakfast when the shell hit her apartment in the Sur district of Diyarbakir, the Dogan news agency said. An AFP photographer at the scene said the mortar fire had left a gaping hole in the exterior wall of the second-story apartment.
Bloodstained breakfast trays, tea glasses and bowls could be seen lying on the carpet where she was sitting which was also covered in debris from the damaged wall, as local women wailed in mourning outside, he said. Dogan said it was not clear where the shell had been fired from but that an investigation was under way.