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Turkey: Suspected Kurdish rebels bomb
freight train, no casualties
2.8.2006
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DIYARBAKIR,
Kurdistan-Turkey, August 2, (AFP) , -- Suspected
Kurdish rebels bombed a freight train in eastern
Turkey, causing damage but no casualties, security
sources said Wednesday.
The bomb went off late Tuesday on a railroad in the
province of Erzincan, damaging one of the 19 wagons
of a passing freight train, the sources said.
The authorities believe the blast was the work of
the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK), blamed
for similar attacks in the past.
Two freight trains were hit by explosives attacks in
the southeastern province of Mus in June and July,
and five railway security guards were killed last
year when a bomb ripped through a train in Bingol
province, also in the southeast.
The PKK, blacklisted as a terrorist group by Turkey,
the European Union and the United States, has
notably stepped up its attacks this year.
The Kurdish conflict in Turkey has claimed more than
37,000 lives since 1984, when the PKK took up arms
for self-rule in the mainly Kurdish southeast.
AFP
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