9 Hurt as Car Bomb Explodes in Eastern Turkey
At least nine people were wounded, three of them critically, when a car bomb exploded on Monday in a town in eastern Turkey, security sources said.
The bomb-laden vehicle blew up in front of the courthouse in Ovacik, around 800 kilometers (500 miles) east of Ankara, according to the sources who declined to be named.
Two of the wounded were police officers, they said.
It was not immediately clear who carried out the attack. Television footage showed the force of the explosion caused extensive damage to the building.
Turkey is on edge after months of deadly attacks blamed on the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) and Islamic State (IS) jihadists.
A splinter group of the PKK, the Kurdistan Freedom Falcons (TAK), claimed a car bombing last week in Istanbul which killed 11 people including several police officers.
And the PKK claimed another deadly bombing last week in Midyat, a town in the Kurdish-majority southeast, which killed six people, including a pregnant policewoman.
Two major bombings in Istanbul this year were blamed on IS jihadists.
Source: Agence France Presse
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