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August 26, 2016 11:06 am

Car Bomb Attack in Turkey Kills 11 Police Officers, Wounds 78

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The site of the car bomb attack in Turkey. Photo: Twitter.

The site of the car bomb attack in Turkey. Photo: Twitter.

Eleven police officers were killed and 78 people, including three civilians, were wounded in a terror attack carried out by the outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) using a bomb-laden truck in the Cizre district of the southeastern province of Şırnak early on Aug. 26.

The attack targeted a police checkpoint some 50 meters away from a riot police station in the Konak neighborhood located on the Cizre-Şırnak highway.

Read full story at Hurriyet Daily News.

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