 A bomb has exploded outside a branch of British-based HSBC bank in Diyarbakir, south-east Turkey, and one person has been injured, security officials said. The bomb was planted in an automated teller machine and caused serious damage, the officials said. Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) rebels have set off a series of bombs in the mainly Kurdish south-east in recent months. HSBC's Istanbul branch was among targets hit by a series of suicide attacks in 2003 which killed more than 60 people; responsibility was claimed by a group linked to al Qaeda.
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