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Four police officers killed in blast in southern Turkish city | |
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Four police officers have been killed and about 20 people wounded after an explosion hit a passing police vehicle in the south-eastern Turkish city of Diyarbakır, according to a government official. A security source said the injured included civilians. | |
Broadcaster Habertürk TV said the blast on Thursday was near a bus station in the city, the largest in the mainly Kurdish south-east. Ambulances rushed to the scene, Habertürk said. | |
The south-east has been hit by waves of violence since a ceasefire between the militant Kurdistan Workers party (PKK) and the government collapsed last July. | |
The prime minister, Ahmet Davutoğlu, whose government has waged a relentless campaign against PKK rebels since last summer, was due on Friday to make a rare visit to Diyarbakır. | |
Hundreds of security force members, rebels and civilians have been killed since the PKK resumed its more than three-decade insurgency after the truce collapsed. | |
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