Thursday, 14 January 2016

Bomb Blast At Turkey's Police Post

A car bomb blast near a police building in a Kurdish-majority province in southeastern Turkey has killed six people and injured at least 39 others, officials have said.The bomb attack, blamed by officials on the outlawed Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK), caused heavy damage to outer walls of the police headquarters in the town of Cinar in the province of Diyarbakir, Al Jazeera's Kadir Konuksever, reporting from Diyarbakir, said.

The fighters followed up the bombing with rocket attacks and gunfire, he said, adding that adjacent housing for families of police officers and a private house with civilians inside were also hit.

Three police relatives and three civilians, including two children, who were in the house near the blast, were killed in the incident, he said.

Source
Aljezerra

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