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Bomb blast in Turkish city hurts man,
causes damage
4.3.2006
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ANKARA - A small
bomb wounded one man and damaged dozens of buildings
in western Turkey on Saturday, the state-run
Anatolian news agency said.
The makeshift bomb exploded in a wheelbarrow near a
police station in a mainly Kurdish district of Izmir,
Turkey's third biggest city, located on the Aegean
coast.
The wounded man, aged 54, had been crossing the
street at the time of the blast, which shattered
glass and caused other damage to more than 40
buildings in the vicinity.
Police suspected the hand of the rebel Kurdistan
Workers Party (PKK), which is fighting for an ethnic
homeland in southeast Turkey, Anatolian said
A wide variety of militant groups ranging from
Kurdish rebels to ultra-left radicals and Islamists
operate in Turkey and small-scale bomb blasts are
not uncommon.
Last month, a group called the Kurdistan Liberation
Hawks, a hard-line PKK-splinter group, carried out
two separate bomb attacks in Istanbul.
One man died in the first blast, which hit an
Internet cafe near a police station. At least six
people were hurt in the second blast targeting a
supermarket a few days later.
Some 37,000 people have been killed since 1984 when
the PKK began an armed campaign against the Ankara
government for Self-Rule in the country's mainly
Kurdish southeast (Kurdistan-Turkey).
Reuters
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