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3 dead in Turkey police HQ attack

AFP, Ankara

Thu Aug 18, 2016 02:37 PM Last update on: Thu Aug 18, 2016 03:09 PM

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Turkish soldiers guard a check point in the troubled southeast of the country. Photo: AFP

At least three people were killed and another 120 injured Thursday in a car bomb attack on a police headquarters in eastern Turkey, a local security source said.

The explosion, blamed on the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK), happened in the garden of the four-storey building in Elazig, a conservative non-Kurdish province which had been spared much of the violence stemming from the conflict between Turkey and Kurdish militants.