Car bomb kills three, wounds more than 120 in eastern Turkey
 

DIYARBAKIR: At least three people were killed and more than 120 were wounded in a car bomb attack on a police station in the eastern Turkish city of Elazig on Thursday, security sources said, hours after a similar bombing killed three people elsewhere in the region.

Footage showed a large plume of ***** rising from the area in the immediate aftermath of the blast and extensive damage to the facade of the police station.

Turkey´s Dogan news agency said the outlawed Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) militant group was behind the attack.

The group has frequently carried out attacks on police stations in Turkey´s largely Kurdish southeast in recent months.

On Wednesday, three people were killed and 120 were wounded when a car bomb exploded near a police station in the eastern province of Van near the Iranian border on Wednesday, state broadcaster TRT said, citing the local gover**r.

** one immediately claimed responsibility for that attack.

The mainly Kurdish southeast has been scorched by violence since a 2-1/2-year ceasefire between the state and the PKK collapsed in July last year.

The PKK is designated a terrorist group by Turkey, the United States and European Union.

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