Associated Press
ANKARA, Turkey — Turkey’s NTV television, citing authorities, said today that 45 people have been killed in an attack on a wedding in the southeast.
NTV quotes Deputy Gov. Ferhat Ozen of Mardin province as saying the nighttime attack with grenades and automatic weapons occurred in Bilge village near Mardin. Other reports have said the attack occurred in Sultansehmuz village.
NTV says the motive for the attack was an feud between rival groups of pro-government village guards who fight alongside Turkish troops against Kurdish rebels.
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