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Turkey wedding carnage finds new suspect
[Iran Press TV Latest] Turkey has arrested another suspect over the recent massacre in a wedding party, which killed over 44 people in the southeast of the country. Interior Minister Besir Atalay said that the man was not suspected of being among the masked gunmen who stormed the party on Monday, but was found to be in possession of hand grenades and other ammunition, AFP reported on Saturday. He added the suspect gunmen included members of the "village guard" -- a Kurdish militia recruited by the government to help in the fight against separatist Kurdish rebels in the southeast -- and that they used government-supplied weapons in the carnage. "Village guards were involved in this incident, but the village guard system is not the direct cause," said Atalay, calling for a revision in the village guard system. Forty-eight children lost at least one parent in the attack, including 31 who lost both, social services official Fevzi Hamidi told Anatolia news agency on Saturday. The attack is believed to have been motivated by long-running hostilities between rival families. The latest arrest has brought the number of suspects held over the incident to eleven. Posted by: Fred 2009-05-10 |
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