At least 14 of them were in serious condition.
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All the killed and wounded as a result of the vehicle bomb attack on a police station in Turkey’s Elazig, are police officers.
Three bomb attacks targeting Turkish security forces in the east of the country have killed 11 people and wounded almost 300 others, authorities said Thursday.
The blast left much of the four-story building in ruins, with television images showing a large plume of black smoke billowing into the sky while rescuers searched for survivors.
Kurdistan Workers’ Party, or PKK, has been blamed for the attack by authorities.
Two policemen and a civilian were killed in an attack on Wednesday night in Van, another city in the east.
Two vehicle bombings targeted police stations in Turkey, killing at least six people and wounding 219 others, officials said on Thursday.
Authorities blamed the attack on the rebels of the Kurdistan Workers’ party, or PKK, which has carried out several similar attacks against police in Turkey’s mainly-Kurdish southeast region. Turkey and its allies consider the PKK a terrorist organization. The three killed in Elazig were all police officers, he said, and so were 85 of the injured.
Former prime minister Ahmet Davutoglu suggested on Twitter that Gulen’s movement was working with the PKK, which is listed as a terrorist organisation by Ankara, the United States and the European Union.
More than 600 security personnel and over 7,000 PKK fighters have been killed since the PKK restarted its 30-year campaign against the Turkish government in July 2015 after a fragile peace process collapsed, Anadolu reported.
Yildirim said in his comments in Elazig that FETO – the government’s name for Gulen’s network – had “handed over its mission” to the PKK.
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Van Governor Ibrahim Tasyapan said the PKK was behind the attack, and that police had apprehended a suspect, Anadolu reported.
