Turkey blames Kurdish militants over car bomb attack wounding nine

Turkey's interior minister has blamed the outlawed Kurdish militants over the roadside bomb attack in the Kurdish-majority southeast. 
People gather near the site of an explosion that hit the police headquarters the day before in the Kurdish majority city of Diyarbakir, southeastern Turkey, April 12, 2017.
People gather near the site of an explosion that hit the police headquarters the day before in the Kurdish majority city of Diyarbakir, southeastern Turkey, April 12, 2017. - Ilyas Akengin/AFP via Getty Images
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A roadside car bomb attack Dec. 16 on a Turkish police van slightly injured nine people in Turkey’s predominantly Kurdish southeast, Turkish authorities said.

The explosives-laden car blew up as the police shuttle was passing by at around 5 a.m. local time in Turkey’s Kurdish-majority province of Diyarbakir. Turkish Interior Minister Suleyman Soylu said all nine injured, including eight police officers and one civilian personnel, were discharged from hospital. 

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