Three people were wounded on Thursday when two Katyusha-type rockets fired from an area in Syria controlled by ISIL Takfiri group slammed into the center of a Turkish town close to the Syrian border

Three people were wounded on Thursday when two Katyusha-type rockets fired from an area in Syria controlled by ISIL Takfiri group slammed into the center of a Turkish town close to the Syrian border, a report said.

The rockets hit the center of the town of Kilis at around 0545 GMT, the Dogan news agency reported. Ambulances were sent to the scene as police threw a security cordon around the area.

Dogan said one of the rockets hit a building used by Syrian refugees and two of those wounded were Syrian citizens.

Another person was wounded by the second rocket and police also evacuated a school nearby.

Pictures broadcast by Turkish television showed the rockets had badly damaged masonry and windows on one building.

Kilis, where according to Turkish officials Syrian refugees now outnumber the native Turkish population, has been hit several times by ISIL fire.

In March, two people including a four-year-old child were killed by rocket fire there, while in January a janitor was killed and pupil wounded when ISIL fire hit a school.

Turkey has on occasion been accused by its western allies of not doing enough to combat the threat of ISIL, which captured swathes of Iraq and Syria right up to its border.