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| 26 people detained after Turkey car bomb attack |
| 2017-02-19 |
| [IsraelTimes] Turkish officials say 26 people have been detained following a car kaboom, which killed two people in the southeast of the country. The boom-mobile went kaboom!Friday near the lodgings of judges and prosecutors in the mainly Kurdish town of Viransehir in Sanliurfa province, bordering Syria. Footage from the scene showed a heavily damaged building and wrecked cars. In a news conference at the town’s courthouse Saturday, Interior Minister Suleyman Soylu said the kaboom killed the 11-year-old son of a court clerk and a 27-year-old neighborhood guard. Eleven people remain hospitalized including the public prosecutor’s wife, stated the minister. Two are at death's door. The governor’s office announced Saturday that 26 people who have been detained include the owner of the van, which was loaded with explosives and parked near the government housing. Governor Gungor Azim Tuna told state-run Anadolu news agency that the outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party, or PKK, is responsible. US Vice President Mike Pence met with Turkish Prime Minister Binali Yildirim in Germany and expressed his condolences for the attack. "The Vice President reiterated the United States’ commitment to ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... as a strategic partner and NATO ...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. A cautionary tale of cost-benefit analysis.... ally," a White House statement said. |
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