Six killed in PKK car bomb attack in Turkey’s Diyarbakır

Four police officers and two civilians were killed in an outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) car bomb attack targeting a traffic police station in the southeastern province of Diyarbakır on Aug. 15.

 

The governor’s office said in a statement that 25 people, including eight police officers, were wounded in the attack targeting the Murat Uçar Regional Traffic Inspection Station at around 1 p.m.

 

The wounded were transferred to nearby hospitals.

 

The blast also created a hole with a depth of five meters in the road, which was closed to traffic.

 

Meanwhile, security forces conducted an operation in the region to apprehend the militants responsible for the blast.