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Car Bomb Kills 3 in Southern Turkey

by VOA News

   Kurdish rebels detonated a car bomb outside a police station in
   southeastern Turkey killing at least three people.

   The attack targeted a police control post on the highway leading
   southeast from Diyarbakir to the city of Batman, according to the local
   governor's office.

   Officials say 25 people were wounded in the attack including several
   police officers.

   The blast tore a large crater into the ground and also destroyed a
   building.

   Police have blamed the attack on rebels from the Kurdistan Workers'
   Party (PKK).

   The PKK has been targeting Turkish police and military in its struggle
   for autonomy in Turkey's southeast since the collapse of a cease-fire
   agreement nearly a year ago.

   Last week, at least 12 people were killed in a wave of PKK attacks
   targeting Turkish police and soldiers in the mainly Kurdish southeast.