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PKK bombs UK bank
2006-03-16
A BOMB has exploded outside a branch of British-based HSBC bank in Diyarbakir, south east Turkey, injuring one person, security officials said. The bomb was planted in an automated teller machine and caused serious damage, the officials said today. Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) rebels have set off a series of bombs in the mainly Kurdish south east in recent months.

Last week three people, including the bomber, were killed in an explosion claimed by the PKK as a suicide attack.

No one at HSBC was available to comment today.
Posted by:Dan Darling

#5  Every terrorist attack in Turkey will be blamed on the Kurds, particularly while there's an Islamist government in power.
Posted by: Robert Crawford   2006-03-16 07:59  

#4  They've also targeted British tourists - not likely to be PKK either.
Posted by: Howard UK   2006-03-16 05:38  

#3  There was a well documented case of a Turkish police agent planting a bomb a couple of months back. He was caught red-handed.

Bombing an ATM of a British company seems fishy to me.
Posted by: phil_b   2006-03-16 04:53  

#2  Didn't AQ blow up the HSBC building in Istanbul? Not enough dead and maimed for AQ to slake their thirst with such paltry displays.
Posted by: Howard UK   2006-03-16 03:35  

#1  Some of these incidents are caused by turkish provocatuers.
Posted by: phil_b   2006-03-16 02:28  

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