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A Turkish drone has killed two journalists from Turkey’s mainly Kurdish southeast while covering the fighting between Ankara-backed militia and US-backed Kurdish fighters in northern Syria, the AFP reports.

Nazim Dastan and Cihan Bilgin were killed on Thursday east of Aleppo when a drone attacked their car, Dicle Firat Journalists’ Association says.