*EU CRITICIZES TURKEY'S OFFENSIVE*

*Turkey's offensive in Syrian town of Afrin*.

The European Union's top diplomat criticized Turkey on Monday over its military offensive in  northern Syrian town, calling on Ankara to-

Ensure that fighting eases in the conflict-torn country.

The appeal came as looting was widely reported in the town captured a day earlier by Turkish troops  and allied Syrian fighters, according to residents and monitors.

Meanwhile, Turkey's state-run news agency said 11 people - seven civilians and four Turkish-backed Syrian fighters - were killed in an explosion in a building in Afrin town center as it was being cleared of booby traps.

Anadolu News agency said the bomb was reportedly left by Syrian Kurdish fighters.

On Sunday, Turkish troops and Syrian opposition fighters allied with Ankara marched into Afrin, nearly two months after Turkey began its offensive on the enclave.

Turkey considers the Syrian Kurdish Militia in Afrin a ''terrorist'' group and an extension of its own  Kurdish insurgency within Turkey.

''I am worried about this,'' Mogherini told reporters in Brissels on Monday, in reference to Turkey's offensive in Afrin.

[Agencies].