Turkey blast: Four killed, 14 wounded in car bomb attack in Diyarbakir, say reports

The private Dogan news agency reported the same toll and attributed the explosion to a car bomb. The agency blamed “terrorists” for the incident, using the government designation for Kurdish rebels.

An opposition politician based in Diyarbakir, Omer Tastan, confirmed there had been an explosion in the city in southeastern Turkey, which has suffered renewed violence between security forces and Kurdish militants.

The blast damaged several cars and shattered almost all the windows of a high rise in the area. At least six ambulances deployed to collect casualties and security forces rushed to seal off the area.

A military hospital where some of the wounded were reportedly taken declined to comment on casualties.

Here are the latest updates: 

9:05 pm: President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said this week that 355 members of the security forces had been killed in the fighting, along with 5,359 members of the PKK. It was not possible to confirm the toll on the rebel side.

9:00 pm: Four Turkish police officers were killed and around 20 people were wounded in a car bomb attack on Thursday in Turkey’s mainly Kurdish southeastern city of Diyarbakir, a government official said.

8:45 pm: Four police killed, 14 people wounded in bomb attack in Turkey’s Diyarbakir: AFP