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Turkey truck bombing: Kurdish militant PKK claims attack that left at least 11 dead

Eleven Turkish police officers were killed and 78 people injured today in a suicide truck bombing.

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Smoke rises the destroyed police headquarters on August 26, 2016 in Cizre, southeastern Turkey after a suicide truck bombing killed eleven Turkish police officers and injured 78 people, in an attack blamed on Kurdish militants, state media said.
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The Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) militant group claimed responsibility for an attack on a police headquarters in southeast Turkey on Friday, according to a statement on a website affiliated to the group. The PKK also said it did not deliberately target the leader of Turkey's main opposition party in an attack in the northeast on Thursday. The government had said the PKK had targetted the convoy of Kemal Kilicdaroglu, leader of the secularist Republican People's Party (CHP), who escaped unharmed.

Friday's suicide truck bombing at the police headquarters killed at least 11 people and wounded dozens, two days after Turkey launched an incursion against Islamic State and Kurdish militia fighters in Syria. 

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