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Kurdish militants attacked a police checkpoint in southeast Turkey with an explosives-laden truck on Friday, killing at least 11 police officers and wounding 78 other people, the prime minister said. (Aug. 26)
The attack struck the checkpoint some 50 yards from a main police station near the town of Cizre, in the mainly-Kurdish Sirnak province that borders Syria, the Anadolu Agency reported.
There was no immediate claim of responsibility for the attack which was the latest in a string of bombings that have targeted police or military vehicles and installations.
Authorities have blamed the Kurdistan Workers' Party, or PKK, for those attacks.
At least two of the wounded were in critical condition, an official said.
The Health Ministry said it had sent 12 ambulances and two helicopters to the site.


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