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Six dead in car bombing in southeast Turkey

2016-08-15 3 Dailymotion

At least six people have died in a car bombing outside a police station in southeast Turkey.<br /><br /> Four police officers and two civilians were killed, including a young child. According to authorities twenty five people were wounded.<br /><br /> The explosion took place outside a traffic police centre on a busy road linking Diyabakir with the town of Batman.<br /><br /> Officials have blamed the Kurdistan Worker’s Party or PKK for the bombing.<br /><br /> Foreign minister Mevlut Cavusoglu told reporters: “Turkish security forces continue their ground operations and air strikes against them (PKK militants). Our people should not worry. Those traitors will pay for what they did.”<br /><br /> There have been frequent clashes between the PKK and government forces since a ceasefire collapsed last year.<br /><br /> Police and military outposts have been targeted in bombings by the militants.<br /><br /> At least 12 people were killed in attacks on Turkish forces in the mainly Kurdish southeast in the last week alone.<br />

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