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| Seven police officers have been killed and 27 others wounded after an explosion hit a passing police vehicle in the south-eastern Turkish city of Diyarbakır, officials have said. | |
| The blast detonated as a vehicle carrying special forces and riot police passed a bus station in the city, the largest in the mainly Kurdish south-east. | |
| Several cars were damaged and almost all the windows of a high-rise building in the area were shattered. At least six ambulances were deployed to collect casualties, and security forces rushed to seal off the area. | Several cars were damaged and almost all the windows of a high-rise building in the area were shattered. At least six ambulances were deployed to collect casualties, and security forces rushed to seal off the area. |
| Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, who is on a visit to Washington for a nuclear security summit, denounced the attack. | |
| “This shows terrorism’s ugly face again,” Erdoğan said in a speech to the Brookings Institute. “The determination of our security forces will, God willing, put an end [to it].” | |
| 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 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. | 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 ended. | Hundreds of security force members, rebels and civilians have been killed since the PKK resumed its more than three-decade insurgency after the truce ended. |