Turkey under Attack: Two Police Officers Killed in Car Bomb
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Two police officers were killed in a car bomb attack on Wednesday in Turkey's mainly Kurdish southeast, a day after 11 people were killed in an attack on a police bus in Istanbul.
The car bomb ripped through the main police station in the town of Midyat near the Syrian border, said state-run Anatolia news agency, which blamed "terrorists" in a reference to the Kurdistan Workers' Party [PKK].
The explosion left two police officers dead and several other people wounded, the privately owned Dogan news agency said.
Images carried by Turkish media showed a massive plume of black smoke rising from the rubble of the severely damaged police station.
The windows of houses in the neighborhood were shattered by the force of the blast.
Ambulances and fire engines were dispatched to the scene after the powerful explosion.
The attack comes a day after a bombing in the heart of Istanbul killed 11 people including several police officers.
Istanbul governor Vasip Sahin on Tuesday said seven police officers were among those killed in the attack, but Turkish media on Wednesday put the toll at six officers and five civilians.
There was no claim of responsibility for the Istanbul bombing but President Recep Tayyip Erdogan suggested that Kurdish militants were behind it.
Turkey remains on high security alert after multiple attacks on its soil in recent months blamed on Kurdish militants and Daesh terrorists.
Source: News Agencies, Edited by website team
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