At least 18 policemen and four civilians were injured in the suspected car bomb attack that was carried out around 9:20 a.m.
Private broadcaster CNNTürk reported that the blast occurred in front of the barriers of the headquarters.
Two cars entered the area in front of the headquarters and started firing with automatic weapons, with police responding to the attack, reported daily Hürriyet.
One of the cars managed to escape, while the second car exploded, according to reports. The police have begun a search to apprehend the other car involved in the attack.
Footage from a CNNTürk broadcast showed pieces of a wrecked vehicle near the station’s gates, several ambulances and fire brigade trucks at the scene of the blast, which it said was felt from kilometers away.
The wounded were taken to a hospital, where one police officer succumbed to his injuries.
Security measures were increased in front of the aforementioned hospital.
Armored police teams and ambulances were sent to the area, as buildings surrounding the station were evacuated by the police after the attack.
Meanwhile, Gaziantep’s International Workers’ Day celebrations were cancelled after the attack.
[hurriyetdailynews.com]
1/5/16
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ReplyDeleteA suicide car bomber has killed two policemen in south-eastern Turkey.
The bomb went off outside police headquarters in the south-eastern city of Gaziantep, near the Syria border.
More than 20 people, some of them civilians, were injured in the early-morning explosion, which was heard several kilometres away.
Police later raided the home of a suspected member of the so-called Islamic State group, who is believed to have carried out the attack.
His father has been detained for DNA testing.
Turkey has been hit by a series of deadly blasts over the past year, linked either to Kurdish militants or ISIS...BBC
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