 Two explosions in trash cans slightly injured nine people Tuesday in separate locations in the popular resort city of Antalya on the Mediterranean coast, the police chief said. Police said they could not confirm whether the blasts were the result of bombs or of some sort of aerosol can exploding in the heat.
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The first explosion occurred as men were emptying a trash can into a garbage truck in the city center, injuring three city workers and two people standing nearby, police chief Huseyin Kizik was quoted as telling the semiofficial Anatolia news agency. The second explosion occurred about 10 minutes later in a trash can near a market and injured four people, including a French tourist cut by broken glass, Kizik said. The explosion blew out the windows of a bus stopped nearby.
"The reason for the explosions isn't yet clear," Kizik said. "There's no finding yet that says they're bombs." Kurdish, Islamic and radical leftist groups are active in Turkey, and recent bombings have targeted Turkish tourist resorts.
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