Police, child killed in Turkey car bomb blast
At least two police officers and a child were killed in the car bomb attack near Turkey's southeastern Diyarbakir city.
The blast on Monday hit a police control post on a highway leading southeast from Diyarbakir to the city of Batman, the local governor's office said in a statement, adding that 25 people were wounded, including eight police officers.
Local officials blamed the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) rebels for the attack, according to the AFP news agency.
At least eight people, mostly civilians, were killed last week in two separate attacks blamed on the PKK in the southeast of the country, which has seen some of the most intense fighting in decades after a ceasefire between the Turkish state and the PKK collapsed in July 2015.
Thousands of PKK fighters, security force members and civilians have since been killed in fighting across the region.
PKK, designated a "terrorist" group by Turkey, the EU and the US, took up arms against the Turkish state in 1984. More than 40,000 people have been killed in the conflict.
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| Footage on Turkey's television channels showed the blast left the building's concrete frame [NTV] |
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