(26 Aug 2016) Kurdish militants on Friday attacked a police checkpoint in southeast Turkey with an explosives-laden truck, killing at least 11 police officers and wounding 78 other people, the state-run news agency said.
The attack struck the checkpoint some 50 meters (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 targeting police or military vehicles and installations.
Authorities have blamed the Kurdistan Workers' Party, or PKK, for those attacks.
The three-story police station was gutted from the powerful explosion.
Violence between the PKK and the security forces resumed last year, after the collapse of a fragile two-year peace process between the government and the militant group. Hundreds of security force members have been killed since.
The PKK is considered a terror organization by Turkey and its allies.

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