An explosion at a police checkpoint on Monday wounded 27 people near the ruling party headquarters and the governor’s office in the eastern Turkish province of Van, a police official said.
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The blast hit some 200 metres from the Van provincial governor’s office, security sources said, ripping through the city’s central district and setting buildings and cars aflame. At least 27 people were wounded in a auto bomb attack in the Turkish eastern province of Van on September 12, in the first day of Islam’s holy Eid al-Adha (Feast of Sacrifice) holiday, the Turkish newspaper Hurriyet reported.
The report said the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) terrorist group stands behind the blast.
Television images showed water cannon being used to put out a fire caused by the explosion.
A number of firefighters and health personnel were immediately dispatched to the scene, as security forces closed roads linking to the scene of the attack to traffic.
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Turkey has also launched an operation inside Syria to remove the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL, also known as ISIS) group as well as Syrian Kurdish armed groups from its frontier.
