ISTANBUL
– A car-bombing at a police checkpoint
on Monday wounded 27 people near the ruling party headquarters and the
governor's office in the eastern Turkish province of Van, a police official
said.
The state-run
Anadolu news agency quoted Van Police Chief Suat Ekici as saying two of the
wounded were in critical condition.
The explosion
occurred Monday around 10:50 a.m. local time on the first day of Eid al-Adha,
an Islamic holiday.
Besir Atalay,
a member of parliament from the ruling AKP party, told private news channel NTV
via telephone that two police officers were among the wounded.
The private
Dogan news agency said an explosives-laden vehicle was detonated about 200
meters (650 feet) from the governor's office in a commercial district where the
AKP municipal offices are located.
Turkey has
suffered a string of attacks in recent months from both Kurdish militants
linked with the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party or PKK as well as from the
Islamic State group, resulting in dozens of casualties.
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