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Turkey terror attack kills 11 cops

India Blooms News Service | | Aug 26, 2016, at 09:31 pm

#Turkey #Cizre #PKK #Bomb blast #PKK

Ankara, Aug 26 (IBNS): In a terror attack carried out allegedly by the outlawed Kurdistan Workersâ€™ Party (PKK) using a bomb-laden truck , at least 11 police officials were killed and 78 people, including civilians, were wounded in Cizre district of Turkey on Friday, media reports said.

"The attack targeted a police checkpoint some 50 meters away from a riot police station in the Konak neighborhood located on the Cizre-ÅžÄ±rnak highway," Hurriyet Daily News reported.

The riot police station building has been damaged following the explosion, reports said.

The PKK is a designated terrorist outfit by Turkey, the European Union and the United States of America.

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