Seven people killed by car bomb in Turkey's southeastA car bomb has gone off outside a police station Turkey. Turkish rebels detonated a car bomb at a police station in southeast Turkey, killing five police officers and two civilians, and wounding at least 20 other people, officials said. Clashes between the PKK and Turkey's security forces resumed last year after a tenuous cease-fire collapsed. PKK commander Cemil Bayik had threatened increased attacks on police last week, in comments carried by Kurdish and Turkish media. Since hostilities with the PKK resumed last year, more than 600 Turkish security personnel and thousands of PKK militants have been killed, according to the Anadolu Agency.

Source: Stuff August 15, 2016 13:41 UTC