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| Turkey: Suicide bomber targets police in south |
| 2008-08-20 |
| (AKI) - One person was killed and twelve others were injured when a suicide bomber detonated explosives in southern Turkey on Tuesday. Turkish media reports said two suicide bombers detonated explosives at a checkpoint in the southern province of Mersin as police tried to stop the car on a highway. The suicide bomber is believed to have died in the attack, while ten police officers were injured, one of them seriously, said the Turkish daily, Hurriyet. Television footage showed images of firefighters trying to extinguish flames at the scene of the bombing. The bomb attack occurred as the news agency Voices of Iraq reported 23 militants from the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) had been killed in Turkish military operations during the month of July. The PKK's official in charge of foreign relations, Ahmed Deniz, told the news agency that the Turkish army had conducted 35 military operations in July compared to 74 carried out by Kurdish militants in the same period. The PKK is a militant organisation committed to an independent, socialist state in Kurdistan, an area comprising parts of Turkey, Iraq, Syria and Iran. It's also not noted for its use of suicide kaboomers. That's more an al-Qaeda kinda thing. |
| Posted by:Fred |