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Turkey bomb blast: many feared dead in explosion at Cizre police checkpoint Turkey bomb blast: nine reported dead in explosion at Cizre police checkpoint
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An explosion has hit a police checkpoint in the south-eastern Turkish town of Cizre, with reports of many dead and wounded. An explosion has hit a police checkpoint in the Turkish border town of Cizre, with reports of at least nine dead and 64 wounded in the latest in a spate of attacks in the country’s turbulent south-east.
Kurdish rebels exploded a car bomb at the post 50 metres from a police station in Sirnak province, severely damaging it, Anadolu Agency reported. The town is on the border with Syria News channel NTV showed large plumes of smoke billowing from the site after, according to Anadolu Agency, Kurdish rebels detonated a car bomb.
Militants of the Kurdistan Workers’ party, or PKK, have carried out a string of car bomb attacks on police and military in recent months. Pictures emerging showed a building, said to be a police station, severely damaged and emergency services sifting through its wreckage.
Cizre is located in Sirnak, a province that borders both Syria and Iraq and has a largely Kurdish population.
💥Latest: #Turkey has lost at least 3 police officers+2 civillians in #pkk car bomb attack in #Cizre w many injured. pic.twitter.com/8lkkvOxpuX💥Latest: #Turkey has lost at least 3 police officers+2 civillians in #pkk car bomb attack in #Cizre w many injured. pic.twitter.com/8lkkvOxpuX
Militants of the Kurdistan Workers’ party, or PKK, have carried out a string of car bomb attacks on police and military in recent months.
Violence between the PKK and the security forces resumed last year, after the collapse of a fragile peace process.Violence between the PKK and the security forces resumed last year, after the collapse of a fragile peace process.
This week Turkey sent more tanks into Syria and warned a Kurdish militia to withdraw from frontline positions, after pro-Ankara Syrian opposition fighters captured a key border town from Islamic State.This week Turkey sent more tanks into Syria and warned a Kurdish militia to withdraw from frontline positions, after pro-Ankara Syrian opposition fighters captured a key border town from Islamic State.
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