ANKARA, Turkey (AP) - A bomb exploded outside a hospital in the Mediterranean port city of Mersin on Sunday, police said. Three people who were wounded from shattered glass were treated at the emergency department.The bomb had been placed near a bicycle outside the Mersin State Hospital's emergency department, shattering windows of nearby buildings and cars, the private Dogan news agency reported. Television footage showed glass on the street as well as a wheel and twisted metal from the bike. Police evacuated people and cordoned off the area against the possibility of a second bomb, according to Dogan.
It was not immediately clear who was behind the explosion, which came on the first day of a new unilateral cease-fire declared by autonomy-seeking Kurdish rebels on Saturday.
| So much for the ceasefire. |