Unidentified gunmen armed with rifles and grenades attacked a wedding party in southeastern Turkey on Monday, killing at least 44 people. The acting governor of the province of Mardin, Ahmet Ferhat Ozen, said the assailants, wearing masks, stormed a building in the village of Sultankoy and opened fire on wedding guests. There had been a blood feud in the village in recent years. The daughter of the village chief, called a muhtar, was being married when the attack occurred. The families of both the bride and the groom included members of the Village Guard, a heavily-armed state-backed militia set up to combat Kurdish separatist guerrillas in the area. Ozen said the number of dead could rise.

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Unidentified gunmen armed with rifles and grenades attacked a wedding party in southeastern Turkey on Monday, killing at least 44 people

44 killed in attack on Turkish wedding

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