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Kurdish protesters hurled rocks Friday at Turkish military vehicles in northeastern Syria during a patrol in which one civilian died when he was run over by a personnel carrier.

A small group of people pelted the convoy with rocks and shoes as it drove by near the town of Maabda, close to the Turkish border, AFP correspondents reported.

A young man was run over by one of the large armoured vehicles and rushed to hospital in the town of Derik.

"He died there of internal bleeding," the monitoring group Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said.

Kurdish villagers have given a similarly tough reception to joint Russian-Turkish patrols in other locations. Turkish forces and their proxies - former Syrian rebels hired as a ground force by Ankara - launched a deadly offensive against Kurdish forces in Syria on October 9.

The push was aimed at seizing a roughly 30-kilometre (20-mile) deep strip of land along the 440-kilometre border between the two countries.

Turkey's defence ministry said that Friday's patrol - the third since a Russian-Turkish deal was brokered last month demanding that Kurdish forces pull back from the 30-kilometre zone - was "completed as planned".

In a statement on Twitter, it said that eight vehicles were involved and that "due care and attention" were given "to the safety of our personnel and the public against provocateurs".

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan wants to keep Syria's Kurdish militia - which has organic ties to Turkey's Kurdish insurgency - at bay.

Another declared goal is to create what Turkey is calling a "safe zone" in which to resettle some of the 3.6 million Syrian refugees it hosts on its soil.

Copyright Agence France-Presse, 2019

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