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ISTANBUL, Aug 2 (Reuters) - Two explosions tore
through rubbish bins and wounded six people on
Tuesday in the southern Turkish city of Antalya, a
popular tourist resort, news reports said.
It was not immediately clear what caused the blasts,
which occurred within minutes of each other in the
bins in separate locations in central Antalya,
Turkey's fourth-largest city, the state-run
Anatolian news agency said.
Three cleaners were slightly wounded while emptying
the first bin. In the second blast, another three
people, including one tourist whose nationality was
not known, were wounded, Anatolian said, quoting
police sources.
A senior Antalya police officer would only tell
Reuters that authorities were investigating the
explosions.
Antalya is on Turkey's Mediterranean coast, and each
year millions of foreign and Turkish tourists visit
the city and holiday villages nearby. Tourism is a
major source of revenue for Turkey's recovering
economy.
Groups linked to the separatist Kurdistan Workers'
Party (PKK) claimed responsibility for two recent
bombings that targeted resort areas and have
threatened further attacks on other tourist sites.
In the second of those recent attacks, five people
died when a bomb ripped through a minibus in the
Aegean Sea resort town of Kusadasi on July 16.
Besides Kurdish separatists, Islamic militants and
far-left radicals have also been behind recent bomb
attacks in Turkey.
Reuters
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