DIYARBAKIR: Around 20 people were wounded when a blast struck outside a police building early Friday in Turkey’s southeastern city of Diyarbakir, the centre of the country’s Kurdish minority, security officials said. An AFP reporter said that several ambulances were dispatched to the scene of the blast, the cause of which was not immediately clear. Gunshots were heard after the initial explosion, which left around 20 people wounded, two of them seriously, security officials told AFP, asking not to be named. Thirteen staff from the opposition Cumhuriyet newspaper, including the editor-in-chief, were detained on Monday, further heightening strains in Turkish society. It has since stepped up its insurgency against the Turkish security forces, staging regular attacks that have claimed hundreds of lives among the military and the police.

Source: New Strait Times November 04, 2016 06:00 UTC