DIYARBAKIR Two officers and one civilian were killed when a auto bomb exploded outside a police station near Turkey’s southeastern city of Diyarbakir on Monday, in an attack suspected to have been carried out by Kurdish militants, security sources said.
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Security sources said two officers and one civilian were killed in the attack, which they suspected was carried out by Kurdish militants.
Twenty-five people, including eight police, were also wounded in that blast at the police station in Sukurlu, a village in Diyarbakir, Dogan News Agency reported.
Ambulances were dispatched to the scene of the explosion. The explosion tore a large crater on the highway while television footage showed a three-story building that appeared to have been gutted by the blast.
The PKK – listed as a terrorist organization by Turkey, the USA and European Union – resumed its 32-year armed campaign against the Turkish state in July 2015.
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The conflict between Turkey and the PKK dates back to 1984 when the separatist group demanded an independent Kurdistan in the south eastern region of Turkey.
