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Scores Killed, Injured as Blast Hits Police HQ in Turkey

Scores Killed, Injured as Blast Hits Police HQ in Turkey
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11 people were killed and 78 more wounded when a bomb blast hit a police station in the city of Cizre in the southeast of Turkey, according to local broadcaster NTV.

Scores Killed, Injured as Blast Hits Police HQ in Turkey

Turkish Health Minister, Recep Akdag, later said over 70 were injured while the death toll remained unclear. No claims of responsibility for the attack have yet been made.

The explosion occurred at 07:00 [04:00 GMT]. Pictures show a multi-story building in ruins.

Television quoted the health ministry as saying 12 ambulances and two helicopters had been sent to the scene.

Photos and videos coming from the southeastern city in Turkey's Sirnak Province show destroyed buildings and ambulances rushing to the scene.

The police station was completely destroyed by the blast, NTV broadcaster reported.

Early pictures showed that the police building had been completely gutted by the power of the blast, reduced to a shell surrounded by a pile of rubble.

Initial information suggests that the explosives were planted in a car.

Other less powerful blasts occurred at an arms depot nearby, where several buildings were damaged, according to NTV.

Anadolu news agency and other local media said the Kurdistan Workers' Party [PKK] is behind the blast.

Cizre is in Sirnak, a province that borders both Syria and Iraq and has a largely Kurdish population.

The latest violence comes as the army reels from a huge purge following a coup attempt in July.

As well as fighting the PKK, Turkey is battling Daesh [Arabic acronym for "ISIS" / "ISIL"], whose militants had carried out a series of bloody attacks over the past year.

Last week, at least 54 people died in a bomb attack at a Kurdish wedding in the southeastern province of Gaziantep. An attack on Istanbul's Ataturk airport also left 44 people dead in June.

 

 

Source: News Agencies, Edited by website team

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