Car bomb kills 2, wounds 18 in Turkey

11:48, 18 February, 2017

YEREVAN, FEBRUARY 18, ARMENPRESS. An explosion in Turkey’s Sanliurfa province killed two people and wounded 18, Hurriyet reports.

The car bomb targeted a building housing judges and prosecutors in Viransehir, in Sanliurfa province, which borders Syria. Turkish authorities said the attack was carried out by the PKK.

Anadolu quoted Provincial governor Gungor Azim Tuna as saying that the bomb, which exploded at 20:45 local time (17:45 GMT), was detonated by remote control, after a man in his late teens or early 20s had left the car, BBC reports.

 


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