Several wounded in 2nd vehicle bombing in Turkey

Three people were killed and 40 more wounded on Thursday in a auto bomb attack in Turkey’s eastern city of Van carried out by Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) militants, a local official said.

It happened at the police headquarters in one of Turkey’s eastern cities.

Officials say the injury toll in two auto bombings targeting police stations in eastern Turkey has reached at least 219.

Kurdish rebels detonated a auto bomb at the police station killing two police officers and a young child, officials said.

It was on Wednesday that the terror began when PKK launched their campaign of auto bombings following commander Cemil Bayik’s threat to increase attacks on police in Turkey.

He told reporters there that both the PKK and the Gulen movement were directed by the same “intelligence” intent on causing Turkey harm, without elaborating.

Anadolu said Kurdish militants were suspected of carrying out the attack. He had been wounded and was taken to the main police headquarters in Van city for questioning. Also on Thursday, a village guard was shot dead and a soldier was injured in nearby Nazar, according to the country’s state-run news agency Anadolu.

Turkey’s southeast has been scorched by violence since a 2½-year ceasefire with the PKK collapsed in July last year.

“No terror organization will force this nation to cow in submission”, he said.

Kirby said the attacks are a reminder of the threat from terrorism Turks continue to face.

No one immediately claimed responsibility for the bombings, but Mr Yildirim said there was no doubt they were carried out by Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) militants, listed as a terrorist group by Turkey, the United States and the European Union.

Rights groups say about 400 civilians have also been killed.

Amnesty International condemned Thursday’s auto bombings as “the latest in a series of reckless and brutal attacks”.

Turkey’s operations began in the wake of a deadly July 2015 bombing in the southern town of Suruc, which the Turkish government blamed on the Takfiri Daesh terrorist group.

Media coverage of the Elazig attack has been banned in Turkey.