The 'Russian-made missile' clatters into Turkish Cyprus

A alleged Russian-made rocket has crashed north of the Cypriot capital, Nicosia, Turkish Cypriot officials said.

The burst befallen at around 1 am on Monday(22:00 GMT on Sunday), in  the Tashkent district, also branded as Vouno, about 12 miles north of Nicosia.

Giving to Turkish Cypriot announcer BRT, Prime Minister Ersin Tatar said no one was hurt in the explosion and that firefighting crews had confined a blaze that the is finalize.

"The first duty is  which was part of the in-flight security method that took abode last night in the face of an air strike in contradiction of Syria, concluded its range and fell into our country after it missed," Turkish Cypriot Overseas Minister Ozersay said in a Facebook post on Monday.

Cyprus is positioned about 120 miles west of Syria, where Israeli warplanes struck Syrian military positions on Monday morning, slaughter at least four citizens and hurting 21 others, conferring to state media.

Mustafa Akinci, the  earlier linked the event to military actions in the Internal East but further surveys were under way by the military to start what it was.

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"It is obvious it is not something restricting from our soil ... It is one of the bad sides of the war in the district falling into our country," he said.

Police cordoned off the field where the item landowning and neighboring towns where fragments has been found.

Tatar said Turkish military authorizes may contribution in the inquiry.

A Greek Cypriot military analyst, Andreas Pentaras, said the debris recommended it was a Russian-made S-200 missile.

"An assessment from the pictures made public shows the base of its wings. It has Russian writing on it, so it suggests it is Russian made. Syria uses Russian-made missiles, so a not-so-safe assessment would be it was ... an S-200 (missile)," Pentaras, a retired army general, told Sigma TV in Cyprus.

Jamming technology could have diverted the missile, he said.