Bomb, laid in the auto, was blasted in Turkey’s eastern province of Elazig and resulted in martyrs 3 policemen.
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This is the horrifying moment a wedding party turned to terror when a auto bomb rocked the Turkish city of Van.
That attack came just hours after a deadly blast in the eastern city of Elazig caused extensive damage to the facade of the police station and killed three officers and wounded 170 people.
No group has claimed responsibility for the bombing thus far, police stations and law enforcement in Turkey are often targets of Kurdish militants.
Turkey’s state-run news agency says Kurdish rebels have detonated a roadside bomb in southeast Turkey, killing three soldiers.
It is proscribed as a terrorist group by Turkey, the European Union and the United States. The Turkish authorities blamed the PKK for the attack.
But Van, a city with a mixed Kurdish and Turkish population and a popular tourist destination, has generally been spared the worst of attacks like those seen in the nearby city of Diyarbakir.
Media coverage of the Elazig attack has been banned in Turkey.
Elazig lawmaker Metin Bulut of the ruling AK Party said by phone that 15 of the wounded were seriously hurt. The Van governor’s office said the PKK was responsible.
First, auto bomb exploded outside a police station in the eastern Turkish city of Van, according to Turkish state news agency Anadolu.
Five police officers and three civilians, including a child, were killed on Monday in a powerful vehicle bomb explosion outside a police station near Turkey’s southeastern city of Diyarbakir.
Clashes between the PKK and Turkey’s security forces resumed a year ago after a fragile peace process collapsed.
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Bayram Kavci was killed during earlier bomb attack staged by PKK terrorist organization in Sırnak’s Uludere district.
