A 17-year-old Turk died of his injuries in a southeastern town on Wednesday after being hit by stray gunfire coming across the border from war-torn Syria, Turkish media reported. Mahsun Ertugrul died in hospital after receiving a gunshot to the chest in the small Turkish border town of Ceylanpinar on Tuesday, Dogan news agency said. A 15-year-old boy from the same town was in intensive care after being struck in the head by a bullet from Syria, it added. Ceylanpinar lies across from the northern Syrian town of Ras al-Ain where rebels from the Free Syrian Army have been clashing with Kurdish fighters loyal to the Democratic Union Party (PYD) -- Syria's branch of the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK). Spillover from the fighting, including ricocheting bullets, has injured numerous civilians on the Turkish side in recent months. Kurds comprise 10 percent of Syria's total population, with most living in the north of the embattled country.
