Explosion in Diyarbakir targets another Turkish military vehicle

Published February 18th, 2016 - 10:30 GMT
Family members and relatives mourn outside a morgue in Ankara on February 18, 2016, a day after a car bombing targeted military vehicles, killing 28. (AFP/Adem Altan)
Family members and relatives mourn outside a morgue in Ankara on February 18, 2016, a day after a car bombing targeted military vehicles, killing 28. (AFP/Adem Altan)

A bomb targeting a Turkish military vehicle on Thursday killed seven security forces traveling near Diyarbakir in southeast Turkey, Reuters reported.

The bomb, detonated by remote control, comes less than 24 hours after a suicide car bomb that killed at least 28 people in Ankara, and another explosion that targeted a Turkish cultural center in Sweden.

The armored vehicle was struck on the highway between Diyarbakir, the largest city in the mainly Kurdish region in southeast Turkey, and the district of Lice. Sources earlier said the explosion had struck a convoy of vehicles.

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