Bomb explosion in Turkey injures two
Posted Apr 19, 2011 05:15:42 AM.
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Turkey’s State-run Anatolia News Agency says a bomb explosion has wounded two people near a police station in the country’s south.
The report says police are investigating whether the homemade bomb went off prematurely, injuring two men who intended to hide and set it off.
Anatolia says the explosion ripped off the right hand of one of the men.
The blast occurred Tuesday in the mediterranean port city of Mersin, which has lately seen an increase in attacks by supporters of Kurdish rebels who are fighting for autonomy in the country’s southeast.
Hundreds of thousands of Kurds have migrated to Mersin and other cities in the country’s west to escape the fighting in the southeast.
The conflict has killed tens of thousands of people since 1984.
