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Bomb in Turkish bookstore kills one
9.11.2005
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ANKARA, Nov 9
(Reuters) - A bomb explosion in a bookstore in
Kurdistan (southeast Turkey) killed one person and
injured several others on Wednesday, Turkey's
state-run Anatolian news agency said.
After the blast a group of residents tried to lynch
a person suspected of planting the bomb in Semdinli
on the mountainous border with Iraq and Iran, it
said. The unrest spread when residents turned on the
police, pelting them with stones.
The injured were taken to a hospital.
The news agency said police have detained the
suspect and seized three Kalashnikov assault rifles
found in a nearby car.
"As a result of unrest, many shops' windows were
smashed. I have been informed that 11 people are
injured because of both the explosion and the unrest
that occurred after the explosion," Erdogan Gurbuz,
governor of the main provincial town Hakkari, told
the Anatolian agency.
Last week, Kurdish rebels detonated a car bomb in
front of security headquarters in Semdinli, wounding
23 people and damaging several buildings.
The separatist Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK)
launched its violent campaign for self-rule in
Turkey's mainly Kurdish southeast in 1984 and more
than 30,000 people have died in the conflict, mostly
Kurds.
The fighting tailed off after the group's leader
Abdullah Ocalan was captured in 1999 and imprisoned
in an island jail south of Istanbul.
However, violence has reared up again in the last
year after the PKK called off a unilateral
ceasefire. More than 120 people died in clashes with
the armed forces over the summer, compared with 14
deaths in the whole of 2002.
The group called off a subsequent six-week ceasefire
a month ago after Turkey began membership talks with
the European Union.
Reuters
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