- Title: Bomb attack on police vehicle in Turkey's Diyarbakir kills three - sources
- Date: 10th May 2016
- Summary: DIYARBAKIR, TURKEY (MAY 10, 2016) (REUTERS) MAN WALKING WITH AN INJURED MAN AWAY FROM EXPLOSION SITE VARIOUS OF POLICE AND EMERGENCY OFFICIALS AT SITE POLICE WALKING ACROSS ROAD VARIOUS OF POLICE STANDING ON ROAD
- Embargoed: 25th May 2016 16:01
- Keywords: Diyarbakir explosion Turkey car bomb police
- Location: DIYARBAKIR, TURKEY
- City: DIYARBAKIR, TURKEY
- Country: Turkey
- Reuters ID: LVA0014H87I9Z
- Aspect Ratio: 16:9
- Story Text: A car bomb killed three people and wounded 45 when it struck a police vehicle on Tuesday (May 10) in Diyarbakir, the main city in southeastern Turkey where security forces are trying to crush a Kurdish militant insurgency, the governor's office said.
Explosives in the vehicle were detonated from a distance as an armored police van passed, wounding 12 police officers, the governor's office.
Five of the wounded were inmates being moved while under police custody, a security source said. A senior official said some of them were members of the outlawed Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) militant group being taken to hospital and that they may have been targeted for being suspected informants.
The PKK has waged a three-decade insurgency against the Turkish state to push for Kurdish autonomy in the southeast. - Copyright Holder: REUTERS
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