Ankara Hit by Twin-suicide Bombing After Confrontation With Police
Perpetrators with suspected links to Kurdish PKK were planning a car bomb attack, say local reports.
Reuters Oct 08, 2016 11:00 AM
A photo shows a detail of the gun of a Turkish special forces police officer as he patrols at the scene of a blast near a police station in Istanbul on October 6, 2016.Ozan Kose, AFP
Two militants believed to be preparing a car bomb attack detonated explosives, killing themselves in a remote area near Ankara on Saturday after Turkish police told them to surrender, the provincial governor said.
The militants, believed to be a male and female, probably had ties to the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) armed group, Ercan Topaca told reporters at the scene of the blast outside the capital.
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