A bomb blast has killed seven people and injured at least 10 in southeastern Turkey, according to Turkish TV station CNN-Turk. Five children were among the dead, according to the Turkish station NTV news. A hospital made an appeal for blood donations after the injured were brought in to be treated. Some of the casualties were in serious condition and were being operated on, officials at the hospital said on Tuesday.The cause of the explosion which occurred near a park in the city of Diyarbakir, the Kurdish capital of the southeast, was not immediately known. An official from the local governor's office said the authorities were investigating the possibility that it could have been a bomb left in a package.
Turkey has been plagued by a spate of bombings in recent weeks, which have killed a total of 12 people and wounded dozens, including 10 British tourists. The Kurdistan Liberation Hawks (TAK), the rebel group which claimed the previous attacks in late August, has threatened to turn Turkey into "hell".