The Turkish ministry has responded with artillery fire after a Syrian shell landed about 200m inside Turkey near a border village where 5 civilians were killed on Wednesday. Our correspondent James Reynolds visited Akcakale where the blast took place.

We’ve got a pattern in the last few days，5 straight days in a row. There’ve been mortars landing from Syria, of course one on Wednesday killed a family of 5. Since then they’ve landed in waste land or outside villages. But turkey decided that no matter irresponsible of its own artillery fire, that seemed to be the pattern of the mode. Motors coming on way artillery fire the other way. It doesn’t seem to be escalating beyond that, but I can’t stay in the town of Akcakale. There is extreme amount of tension and anger. I saw a Turkish armed vehicle facing the Syrian border. There were armed police chief driving around the town. To those people in that town in Turkey, this does fell like a frontline.

A car bomb has exploded near a police headquarters in the Syrian capital Damascus. At least one person was killed, several others were injured. Syrian State Television described the blast as a terrorist attack.

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