SULAIMANI (ESTA) — Four members of a family from the Kurdistan Region were found murdered in Turkey on Thursday.
The family was assassinated by several unknown gunmen on the Artuklu-Nusaybin highway in the Yenikoy district of Mardin province.
The incident took place during Thursday’s pre-dawn hours during which a Kurdish family consisting of five individuals came under a fatal armed attack by several unidentified gunmen.
The gunmen savagely shot the Kurdish family dead, killing four of them, and leaving one with severe injuries who later succumbed to his injuries at the hospital. All of them had been shot in their head, local reports said.
Police discovered the bodies of the Kurdish family inside their SUV vehicle which they were traveling with. The victims were aged between 39 to 75 years old and from Kurdistan’s Duhok, Badinan area, Esta has learned.
No perpetrators have been arrested yet.
The Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) Deputy Prime Minister, Qubad Talabani, expressed grieved condolences and called on the Turkish authorities to bring the perpetrators to justice “as soon as possible”.
“We demand the Turkish government to reveal the truth of the incident,” he said.
*This story was updated at 1600 EBL time
