HATAY
Security forces evacuated Thursday several houses in a village in southern Turkey close to border with Syria to defuse two unexploded rockets apparently fired from the war-battered country.
The rockets reportedly landed on Monday in a field in the Kolcular village, some 500 meters away from the border in the southern province of Hatay.
Military bomb experts removed the rockets and transported them safely to a nearby military facility.
Firefighters and paramedics were seen waiting at a safe distance from the scene.
The incident was yet another example of dangers of a spillover from Syria's civil war. Turkey has repeatedly retaliated to stray shells and mortar rounds fired from Syria, one of which in October last year killed five Turks -- all women and children -- in Akcakale town.
