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Three wounded in bomb blasts in southeast
Turkey
17.6.2006
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DIYARBAKIR,
Kurdistan-Turkey, June 16, 2006 (AFP) , - Three
bombs exploded on Friday in Turkey's mainly Kurdish
south east, injuring three people, media and local
sources said.
The first device, placed under a car in the city of
Van, exploded in the early hours causing damage
only, security sources said.
A second bomb hidden in a dustbin went off later
near a national meteorological building in Baskale
near Van, slightly hurting three people, the
Anatolia news agency said.
And the third explosion happened as a military
convoy passed in Hakkari province, south east of
Van, without causing injury, local sources said.
The authorities have not said who they believe was
behind the blasts.
Southeastern and eastern Turkey have been a theatre
of violence off and on since 1984, when the
separatist Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK),
blacklisted as a terrorist group by Ankara, the
European Union and the United States, began fighting
for Kurdish self-rule in the region.
The conflict has claimed more than 37,000 lives.
Earlier, security sources said that a Kurdish rebel
had killed himself in a botched grenade attack on
security forces who had come to raid his home in
eastern Turkey late Thursday.
AFP
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