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nitpicker

(7,153 posts)
Thu Aug 18, 2016, 06:47 AM Aug 2016

Turkey car bombs: Police station attacks kill six and injure 219

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-37116743

Turkey car bombs: Police station attacks kill six and injure 219


48 minutes ago

From the section Europe

Two big car bombs have hit police stations in separate cities in Turkey, killing six people and wounding at least 219 others.

The first attack targeted a police station in the eastern city of Van, killing one police officer and two civilians. Some 73 people were hurt.

Hours later, a police station in Elazig was hit, killing at least three police officers and wounding 146 people.

Turkish officials blamed the Kurdish militant group, the PKK.
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