Car bomb attack in Turkey kills 11 police; 78 wounded
ANKARA -- 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.
Television footage showed black smoke rising from the mangled truck. The three-story police station was gutted from the powerful explosion.
The Health Ministry said it had sent 12 ambulances and two helicopters to the site.
