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Kurdish rebels deny responsibility for
deadly Turkish blast
11.3.2006
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ANKARA, March 10,
2006 (AFP) - Turkey's main armed Kurdish rebel
group on Friday denied responsibility for a bomb
attack in eastern Turkey a day earlier that killed
three people and injured 19 others.
In a statement published on the website of the
Europe-based Firat News agency, the outlawed
Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) said it was not
involved with the blast in the city of Van, which
officials suspect was the work of a suicide bomber.
"Just as we have no information on the incident in
Van, we do not organize attacks" that target
civilians, the PKK said in a brief statement.
The explosion in central Van wrecked a municipal
police vehicle parked near the governor's office,
killing a city worker and a passer-by.
The third victim, whose body was badly mutilated, is
believed to be that of the attacker.
Local security sources said initial suspicions fell
on the PKK, which has waged a bloody separatist
campaign in the country's eastern and southeastern
regions since 1984.
The PKK, blacklisted as a terrorist group by Turkey,
the European Union and the United States, has in the
past conducted countrywide bomb attacks, including
suicide bombings.
A radical Kurdish group officials say is an offshoot
of the PKK has also claimed deadly bomb attacks on
civilian targets in western Turkey.
Violence in Turkey's southeast has escalated since
June 2004, when the rebels called off a five-year
unilateral ceasefire and ended a period of relative
calm in the region.
AFP
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