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Explosion hits Turkish resort, kills four
26.6.2006
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ISTANBUL, June 25
(Reuters) - A blast probably caused by an exploding
gas canister at a popular Turkish tourist area
killed four people, including a Norwegian and a
Ukrainian, and injured about 25 on Sunday, CNN Turk
television said.
It was unclear whether the explosion was an
accident.
Police said the blast happened in a park surrounding
the Manavgat waterfall about 100 km (60 miles) to
the east of the city of Antalya, Turkey's largest
resort area.
The Mediterranean resort of Antalya is popular with
tourists from western Europe and Russia.
Manavgat Mayor Zeynel Senol told the state-run
Anatolian news agency the explosion happened about
5:40 pm and that the cause of the explosion was not
clear.
Kurdish separatists, leftist and Islamist militants
have all carried out bomb attacks in Turkey on
military and civilians targets.
Ten days ago a bomb left in a trash container at a
major outdoor bus station wounded at least three
people in central Istanbul, another major tourist
area. Kurdish militants claimed responsibility for
that blast.
Scores of soldiers and rebels of the outlawed
separatist Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) have been
killed in clashes amid a rise in violence in the
largely Kurdish southeast this year.
More than 30,000 people, mostly Kurds, have been
killed in the separatist conflict since the PKK took
up arms against the state in 1984 with the aim of
carving out an ethnic homeland.
Reuters
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