Car bomb attack kills 18 at Turkish military checkpointEighteen people were killed Sunday when a van packed with five tonnes of explosives blew up in Turkey’s restive southeast, the prime minister said, in an attack blamed on Kurdish militants. The attack targeted a security post in Hakkari province as security forces were searching vehicles in Semdinli district, the official news agency Anadolu said. - ‘Heinous terrorist attack’ -Deputy Prime Minister Numan Kurtulmus described Sunday’s incident as an “atrocious” and “heinous terrorist attack”, vowing on Twitter that Turkey would never surrender to militant groups. Over the past two months, the military says it has killed a total of 387 PKK militants in Hakkari province, CNN-Turk reported. On Saturday the Turkish armed forces said it “neutralised” eight PKK militants in Cukurcu district after clashes with the group, Anadolu reported.

Source: Manila Bulletin October 10, 2016 02:37 UTC