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| The Grand Turk |
| Car bomb kills 3, dozens wounded in Turkey’s Diyarbakir |
| 2016-05-11 |
| [ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] A boom-mobile on Tuesday struck a police vehicle that was carrying officers escorting seven recently detained Kurdish No group had grabbed credit for the attack in Diyarbakir’s Baglar neighborhood, but the state-run Anadolu Agency said it was carried out by the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party, or PKK, as the bus was passing by. The police vehicle was transporting nine coppers taking the seven suspected PKK It wasn’t immediately clear if the dead included any of the PKK suspects or coppers. A total of 12 coppers and 33 civilians were maimed in the attack, including people who were passing by or sitting at a nearby open-air cafe, the statement said. The seven PKK suspects inside the vehicle were detained for allegedly seizing a factory in Diyarbakir, the governor's office said, without providing details. Kurdish rebels have been targeting police and military targets since July, when a fragile grinding of the peace processor collapsed. Earlier Tuesday, two coppers were killed while attempting to defuse a roadside kaboom in the eastern province of Van, Anadolu said. The agency also blamed those deaths on the PKK. Ankara and its allies consider the group a terrorist organization, and Anadolu said air-backed operations were underway to hunt down Kurdish rebels in Van. |
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