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Turkey police headquarters hit by car bomb attack – reports Turkey police headquarters hit by fatal car bomb attack
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At least two people have reportedly been killed and as many as 39 wounded on Thursday in a car bomb attack on a police station in Turkey’s troubled south-east. Five people have been killed and 39 wounded on Thursday in a car bomb attack by Kurdish militants on a police station and adjacent housing for officers in south-eastern Turkey, the provincial governorate has said.
A woman and a baby are thought to have died in the town of Cinar, Diyarbakir province, in the raid which has been blamed on the outlawed Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK). Two people were killed in an initial car bomb attack blamed on the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) in the town of Cinar while three more lost their lives when a building collapsed due to the damage sustained, the governor’s office of Diyarbakir province said in a statement.
The bomb caused heavy damage to the outer walls of the police station, and the attackers then followed up with rockets and long-range gunfire, the Dogan news agency reported. Images published by Turkish media showed the late-night blast caused huge damage to the residential building used by the police officers and their families, with the entire outer wall blown out.
Bu gece Diyarbakır Çınar! Bir polis eşi ve bir bebek hayatını kaybetti. 40 yaralı! pic.twitter.com/OdDbNjOIU5Bu gece Diyarbakır Çınar! Bir polis eşi ve bir bebek hayatını kaybetti. 40 yaralı! pic.twitter.com/OdDbNjOIU5
Adjacent housing for police officers was also hit, wounding the wives of police and several children, Dogan said. Both police and civilians were wounded but initial reports said all those killed were civilians.
Another police station was attacked with rocket launchers in Midyat town, in province of Mardin. No casualties were reported there. The governor’s office said that 14 people were injured in the initial bomb blast while 25 were wounded by the collapse of the building, including five who had been rescued from the rubble by emergency teams.
No group has yet claimed either of the attacks. The attackers also followed up the car bomb attack with rocket fire and long-range gunfire, reports said. It was not clear if this caused any additional casualties.
The PKK launched a formal insurgency against the Turkish state in 1984, initially fighting for Kurdish independence although it now presses more for greater autonomy and rights for the country’s largest ethnic minority. The conflict has left tens of thousands dead. The PKK launched a formal insurgency against the Turkish state in 1984, initially fighting for Kurdish independence although it now presses more for greater autonomy and rights for the country’s largest ethnic minority.
The conflict has left tens of thousands dead.
A new upsurge of violence between the security forces and the PKK erupted in July in the wake of attacks blamed on Islamic extremists, shattering a fragile two-and-a-half-year truce.A new upsurge of violence between the security forces and the PKK erupted in July in the wake of attacks blamed on Islamic extremists, shattering a fragile two-and-a-half-year truce.
Vowing to flush out the PKK from Turkey’s urban centres, the authorities have in recent weeks kept up curfews in three locations in the south-east to back up military operations that activists say have killed dozens of civilians. Vowing to flush out the PKK from Turkey’s urban centres, the authorities have in recent weeks enforced curfews in three locations in the southeast to back up military operations that activists say have killed dozens of civilians.
Ten German tourists were killed on Tuesday in a suicide bombing in central Istanbul which the government blamed on Islamic State, an arch foe of the PKK. A curfew has been in force in the Sur neighbourhood of Diyarbakir city since 2 December while curfews in the towns of Silopi and Cizre in Sirnak province have been in place since 14 December.
Agence France-Presse contributed to this report Ten German tourists were killed on Tuesday in a suicide bombing in central Istanbul which the government blamed on Islamic State (IS) group, an arch foe of the PKK.
But President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said after the Istanbul attack the government made no differentiation between “terror” groups “whatever their name or abbreviation is”.