Seventeen wounded in bomb attack in eastern Turkey

Sep 24, 2006
monsters and critics
source: dpa

Istanbul - Seventeen people were injured, two of them seriously, in a terrorist attack Saturday evening in eastern Turkey, just hours after another bombing blamed on Kurdish extremists derailed a train.

The bomb exploded in a heavy truck parked outside a police station in the province city of Igdir, according to the Turkish news agency Anadolu.

The injured included people who were walking by the truck as the explosion occurred.

It was not known who carried out the attack. But the province where the attack occurred is on the border with Armenia, an area that has been spared attacks by Kurd rebels in the past.

Just hours before, a freight train in the eastern Turkey province of Erzincan was derailed by explosives mounted on the train track. No one was injured in the attack, which was blamed by Turkish officials on Kurdish extremists.


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