TURKEY: Suspected suicide bomber in southeast Turkey kills two people and wounds around a dozen others in Bingol

Record ID: 353575

  • Title: TURKEY: Suspected suicide bomber in southeast Turkey kills two people and wounds around a dozen others in Bingol
  • Date: 30th October 2011
  • Summary: VAN, TURKEY (OCTOBER 29, 2011) (REUTERS) ***CONTAINS FLASH PHOTOGRAPHY*** VIEW OF TURKISH MINISTERS HOLDING A NEWS CONFERENCE (SOUNDBITE) (Turkish) TURKISH DEPUTY PRIME MINISTER BESIR ATALAY, SAYING: "There was an explosion in front of the AK Party office in Bingol. We are told there are wounded people but we don't have detailed information now." (SOUNDBITE) (Turkish) TUR
  • Embargoed: 14th November 2011 12:00
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  • Location: Australia, Turkey
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  • Country: Turkey Australia
  • Topics: Crime / Law Enforcement,Conflict,Politics,Religion
  • Reuters ID: LVA8RXA7NVV6W8ZOVUNR56S60EPO
  • Story Text: A suspected suicide bomber in southeast Turkey killed two people and wounded around a dozen others in Bingol, a town in the mainly Kurdish region on Saturday (October 29), police said.
    The blast occurred at a tea house close to the office of the ruling AK Party at around 1.20 p.m. (1020 GMT), Interior Minister Idris Naim Sahin told a news conference.
    "One person died, ten are wounded, according to initial information. The bomb explosion occured in a coffee shop at 13.20pm in local time."
    Police said the suspected suicide bomber was a woman.
    Turkey is fighting a long-running separatist insurgency in the southeast, and the blast comes as the government is trying to provide relief to thousands of people rendered homeless by a powerful earthquake in Van, another largely Kurdish province.
    Sahin was addressing a news conference in Van, where he is part of the team overseeing relief work.
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