Bomb blast in Turkish city hurts man, causes damage
Posted on: Saturday, 4 March 2006, 06:14 CST
ANKARA (Reuters) - A small bomb wounded one man and damaged dozens of buildings in western Turkey on Saturday, the state-run Anatolian news agency said.
The makeshift bomb exploded in a wheelbarrow near a police station in a mainly Kurdish district of Izmir, Turkey's third biggest city, located on the Aegean coast.
The wounded man, aged 54, had been crossing the street at the time of the blast, which shattered glass and caused other damage to more than 40 buildings in the vicinity.
Police suspected the hand of the rebel Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK), which is fighting for an ethnic homeland in southeast Turkey, Anatolian said
A wide variety of militant groups ranging from Kurdish rebels to ultra-left radicals and Islamists operate in Turkey and small-scale bomb blasts are not uncommon.
Last month, a group called the Kurdistan Liberation Hawks, a hard-line PKK-splinter group, carried out two separate bomb attacks in Istanbul.
One man died in the first blast, which hit an Internet cafe near a police station. At least six people were hurt in the second blast targeting a supermarket a few days later.
Source: REUTERS
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