Turkey: Blast in Diyarbakir kills 9 people and injures 100 after pro-Kurdish leaders detained
A car bomb targeting a police station in southeastern Turkey has killed seven civilians and two police officers, according to state-run Anadolu news agency.
Earlier on Friday morning, Prime Minister Binali Yildirim said 100 people were injured in the explosion, 93 of whom have since been released from hospitals.
Turkish authorities have blamed the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) for the attack.
The bomb, which damaged cars and nearby building facades, rocked the heavily-populated Baglar district in central Diyarbakir shortly before 8 a.m. local time, the provincial governor’s office said in a statement.