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Suspected car bombing in Istanbul injures four people, reports say | Suspected car bombing in Istanbul injures four people, reports say |
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Several people have been wounded in a blast near a vehicle carrying military personnel in Istanbul, Turkey. | |
A car exploded close to a military installation in the Sancaktepe district. | |
The Mayor of Sancaktepe, Ismail Erdem, said casualties included six soldiers and one female civilian. They were hit by broken glass but did not recieve serious injuries, Mr Erdem said. | |
Security analyst Michael Horowitz posted a tweet appearing the aftermath of the attack: | |
There have been a number of bombings in Nato-member state Turkey over the last few months and both Isis and Kurdish militant groups have claimed responsibility for different attacks. | |
The explosion comes just two days after Kurdish rebels detonated a car bomb close to a police vehicle in the mainly Kurdish city of Diyarbakir, killing three people and wounding dozens of others. | |
The rebels of the Kurdistan Workers' Party, or PKK, have been targeting police and military targets since July, when a fragile peace process collapsed. | |
The group is fighting for autonomy for Turkey's Kurds in the southeast of the country. It has waged a decades-long insurgency against the Turkish state in a conflict that has claimed 40,000 lives. | |
The group is considered a terrorist organization by Turkey and its allies. | |
PKK-linked rebels have staged multiple bomb attacks against Turkish police and troops, which in turn have carried out tank-backed security operations in flashpoint areas. |