Near popular tourist areas: Rocket attack on Antalya

Antalya, in southern Turkey, was hit by several rockets today, local media and world agencies report, Patria reports. 

It is added that there is no information about injuries in the incident. Antalya province is located near the popular tourist areas of Marmaris and Bodrum, and north of Cyprus.

The Turkish news agency Dogan reported that three rockets were fired at a fishing company in Antalya.

NTC television reports that the rockets were fired towards the port where an oil tanker was located, which could have caused far greater consequences.

Numerous attacks

This agency adds that the projectiles were fired in a mountainous area near the highway connecting the city of Antalya and the resort of Kemer. Emergency vehicles and special security forces were sent to the attacked area.

The city of Antalya is treated as a gateway to the southern, Mediterranean region of Turkey, known as the Turquoise Coast due to its blue waters.

Turkey has recently been the scene of numerous terrorist attacks with hundreds of victims in explosions and firearms attacks blamed on members of either the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK, which Turkey treats as a terrorist organization) or armed groups of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL).

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