Several people were wounded and at least one feared killed after a mortar shell struck a school in Turkey’s southeastern border province of Kilis

Several people were wounded and at least one feared killed after a mortar shell struck a school in Turkey's southeastern border province of Kilis, security sources and local media reports said.

Footage broadcast on the website of the Hurriyet newspaper showed what appeared to be a body lying by the door of the school in Kilis town, the provincial capital, as shocked women and children were escorted from the building.

Security sources said as many as two people may have been killed, while local media reports said four people including pupils were wounded, one of them seriously. A government official told Reuters the authorities were investigating the number of casualties and the cause of the blast.

Kilis is on the edge of a roughly 100 km (60-mile) strip of Syrian border territory controlled by ISIL terrorists.