Turkey: explosion at police station was 'terror attack'
An explosion that hit a police station in the mainly Kurdish city of Diyarbakir was a "terror attack" carried out with a ton of explosives planted inside a tunnel, Turkish officials said Wednesday.
The blast occurred Tuesday at a workshop inside the police complex as an armored vehicle was being repaired. A police officer and two civilian employees were killed.
The Diyarbakir governor's office said five people were detained in connection with the attack.
Interior Minister Suleyman Soylu had announced after the explosion that it appeared to be accidental, with no "outside intervention."
On Wednesday, however, he told Haber Turk television in an interview that investigators had concluded that it was an attack by assailants who had dug a tunnel and placed explosives beneath the vehicle repair facility.
