Car Bomb Detonated in Cizre, Southeast Turkey

World News Rudolph Rodriquez
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A car bomb exploded outside a police building in the town of Cizre in south-eastern Turkey, claiming the incident itself with several dead and wounded.

According to the first information, nine people from whom three police officers were killed in the blast and at least 65 people were injured. The blast occurred at 7.00 am local time.

The Anadolu State Agency announced, citing sources from the security, that the Kurdistan Workers Party militants were the ones that detonated the car bomb.

On Thursday, the Turkish Minister of Interior, Ala Efkan, accused the group of attacking a convoy in which Turkey’s opposition leader Kemal Kilicdaroglu was.

It is yet unknown who the attackers were.

Images revealed big plumes of smoke rising in the air.

The city, in which the attack occurred, Cizre, is located in Sirnak, at the borders of Iraq and Syria, where most of the population is of Kurdish origins.

The Anadolu Agency is blaming the Kurdistan Workers Party for the blast, for the organization was almost daily involved in clashes, since July, being listed as a terrorist group.

Since 1984, more than 40,000 people died because of the rebels.

Kurdistan Workers’ Party, abbreviated PKK, is the Kurdish separatist organization which is fighting for the Kurdish independence in Turkey’s territorial, fighting for an independent Kurdistan.

Turkey, along with the United States and many other European countries consider the PKK a terrorist group and refuses to carry any kind of negotiations to resolve the Kurdish issue.