Four hurt in Turkey "accidental" bomb blast
7/16/2013 6:08:19 PM
Four teenagers were wounded when a homemade bomb accidentally exploded in the main Kurdish-majority city of Diyarbakir in southeastern Turkey on Tuesday, a local security source said.
An 18-year-old man transporting the bomb for an alleged attack on behalf of the rebel Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) lost his hands in the explosion, the source said.
His 16-year-old presumed accomplice was also wounded in the blast along with two 14-year-old passersby who were hit by shrapnel.
Abdullah Ocalan, the PKK's imprisoned leader, declared a historic ceasefire in March after months of clandestine negotiations with the Turkish secret service.
However the peace process was rattled by the death of a young Kurdish man during an anti-government protest in the southeast last month.
The PKK first took up arms for Kurdish self-rule in southeastern Turkey in 1984, sparking a conflict that has cost some 45,000 lives.
An 18-year-old man transporting the bomb for an alleged attack on behalf of the rebel Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) lost his hands in the explosion, the source said.
His 16-year-old presumed accomplice was also wounded in the blast along with two 14-year-old passersby who were hit by shrapnel.
Abdullah Ocalan, the PKK's imprisoned leader, declared a historic ceasefire in March after months of clandestine negotiations with the Turkish secret service.
However the peace process was rattled by the death of a young Kurdish man during an anti-government protest in the southeast last month.
The PKK first took up arms for Kurdish self-rule in southeastern Turkey in 1984, sparking a conflict that has cost some 45,000 lives.