Wednesday, April 20, 2011

Two wounded in a bomb explosion in southern Turkey

Ankara. .- Two men were injured today when a bomb exploded near a police station in the Turkish province of Mersin in the south of the country, state news agency Anadolu. According to the source, the Turkish police suspect that the two injured were manipulating the device. One of them, aged 22, lost his right hand and is admitted to the University Hospital of Mersin, along with another youth, aged 20, who was also seriously injured, although none of them life threatening, according to Anadolu.

The explosion occurred 50 meters from the station Sitel in Mersin, a village in southern Turkey in the past decade has hosted tens of thousands of Kurdish immigrants and where the outlawed Tarbajadores Party of Kurdistan (PKK) has carried many attacks.

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