<a href=NEWS.rin.ru'><a href=NEWS.rin.ru'> NEWS.rin.ru 
26 of August, 15:16

The victims of the explosion in the Turkish city of Cizre began to 8 people The victims of the explosion in the Turkish city of Cizre began to 8 people. Early in the morning close to the checkpoint, a car bomb was detonated.

The device exploded at about 7 am. The bomb was in a truck parked in front of the police Department of the town of Cizre in Turkey, near the border with Syria and Iraq. The charge capacity is not yet established, but the building of the police Department destroyed. Data on victims are initially different. And here a few minutes ago authorities said the exact number of victims: 8 policemen killed and 45 wounded, two of them are in critical condition. Most of the victims of the attack were police officers. Almost through the day, there are reports of attacks on Turkish security forces.

Ankara suspects in a series of attacks by militants of the outlawed Turkey Kurdistan workers ' party. So this time the police are confident that for the morning blast in Cizre the PKK is. If so, it is not excluded that the attack is a response of the Kurds in the artillery shelling by the Turkish troops of the Syrian city of Jerablus. The fact that last night during the operation "shield of the Euphrates" under artillery fire by the Turkish army got a group of Syrian Kurds.
sections: World News, Accidents, Accidents

    Copyright © RIN 2005-