ISTANBUL: At least 25 people were wounded in a bombing on Wednesday blamed on Kurdish rebels targeting a police vehicle in southeastern Turkey, a Turkish official said.
The bomb went off close to a hospital in the town of Kiziltepe south of Mardin city as the police vehicle passed, wounding 25 people, said the official.
Pictures showed the force of the explosion caused considerable damage to nearby buildings and vehicles.
A near simultaneous blast in Diyarbakir city to the north left at least five people wounded, an AFP correspondent at the scene said.
Both blasts are believed to have been carried out by the Kurdistan Workers? Party (PKK), the Turkish official said.
Hundreds of members of the Turkish security forces have been killed by the PKK in attacks since the collapse of a two-year ceasefire in July last year.
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