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Masked assailants with grenades and automatic weapons attacked an engagement ceremony [25A] in southeast Turkey on Monday, [26A] killing 45 people. Two girls survived after the bodies of slain friends fell on top of them during the onslaught.
    NTV television quoted Deputy Gov. Ferhat Ozen of Mardin province as saying the nighttime attack occurred in Bilge village near the city of Mardin. [27C]Sorne media outlets reported that a "blood feud" among families had led to the killings in a region where tribal ties and rivalries sometimes eclipse the power of the state.