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2 Bomb Blasts in southern Turkey, 17
injured
4.8.2006
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ANKARA, Turkey,
August 4, -- Two explosives detonated within minutes
of each other in a southern Turkish city Friday,
seriously wounding one person and injuring 16
others, officials said.
The first blast occurred in front of a bank on a
busy road in Adana, injuring two bank employees,
Adana police chief Mehmet Cebe said.
The second explosion occurred some 30 yards away at
a construction site after police had rushed to the
scene of the first blast. Eight police officers and
two police cadets were among the 15 injured in that
blast, Gov. Cahit Kirac said.
Kirac said the first bomb was a percussion grenade _
a type of explosive that usually makes a loud noise
but causes limited damage. The second was a
fragmentation bomb, he said.
Police chief Mehmet Cebe said that no one had yet
claimed responsibility for the blasts. Leftist
groups and Kurd separatists are both active in the
region and have staged bombings in the past.
Since the start of the year, a radical group calling
itself the Kurdistan Freedom Falcons has claimed
responsibility for 11 attacks in urban areas in
Turkey, which have taken nine lives and injured 140.
The Kurdish conflict in Turkey has claimed more than
37,000 lives since 1984, when the Kurdish
separatists took up arms
for self-rule in the mainly Kurdish southeast of
Turkey.
AFP | AP
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