A woman blew herself up and killed two other people Saturday near a ruling party building in the eastern Turkish town of Bingol, the local governor told AFP.
The attack, the first of its kind in a year, took place near the provinvial headquarters of the Islamist-rooted Justice and Development Party (AKP), Mustafa Hakan Guvencer said. Several people were also wounded in the attack, which came as eastern Turkey was winding up rescue efforts a week after a devastating quake and two days after the end of punishing military raid against Kurdish separatists.
The Kurdish Workers’ Party (PKK), whose decades-old struggle against the central government escalated in recent weeks, has carried out such attacks in the past but there was no immediate claim for Saturday’s suicide blast. Interior Minister Idris Naim Sahin, quoted by the Anatolia news agency, had earlier reported a toll of 10 wounded and stressed that the local AKP office was not specifically targeted.
