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Explosion hits police building in Turkey
Car bomb explosion outside police building in Cizre, Turkey, kills nine and injures over 45
A car bomb outside a police building in south east Turkey has left some 9 people dead, and dozens of others injured
A car bomb has exploded outside a police building in Cizre, in south-east Turkey according to international reports. So far, the explosion has left nine policemen dead, but over 45 people were injured.
The BBC reports that the explosion occurred at 7.00am but the reason for the attack so far remains unclear, and no group has claimed the attack yet.
Turkish media were quick to point at the banned Kurdistan Workers Party, PKK. The PKK, launched its insurgency in 1984, alleging widespread abuse and discrimination against Kurds by Turkish authorities. Militants within the group have carried out a string of car bomb attacks on police and military in recent months, after violence between the two resumed last year, after the collapse of a fragile peace process.
Cizre, located in Sirnak, a province that borders both Syria and Iraq and has a largely Kurdish population, and it has been the subject of several curfews in the past few months by Turkish authorities fighting the PKK.
