ANKARA, Turkey — Police on Wednesday shot and killed a suspected suicide bomber — believed to be an Islamic State militant –who was preparing to attack a police station in southern Turkey, officials said. Mustafa Ercan, the chief prosecutor for Mersin province said the suspect was wearing a suicide vest which was later defused by police. Ercan said authorities suspect that the man was a IS militant but did not provide details on his identity. The private DHA news agency, without citing sources, identified the suspect as a 20-year-old Syrian refugee. Ercan told state-run Anadolu news agency: “Our police teams have averted an important attack.”Turkey has been rocked by a wave of deadly attacks since 2015 carried out by IS or Kurdish militants.

Source: National Post September 06, 2017 07:22 UTC