Car bomb wounds 11 people in western Turkey

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Source: Reuters

Eight police officers and three soldiers were wounded on Thursday by a car bomb which ripped through a minibus in the western Turkish city of Izmir, the local governor said.

"Our assessment is that the explosion was caused by plastic explosives detonated by remote control," Izmir Governor Cahit Kirac was quoted as saying by state-run Anatolian news agency.

Sabah newspaper said on Thursday the explosives used in that blast were the same as those used in a double bombing last month in Turkey's largest city, Istanbul, in which 17 people were killed.

Officials have blamed those bombings on Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) guerrillas. The PKK took up arms against the Turkish state in 1984 with the aim of creating an ethnic homeland in southeast Turkey. Some 40,000 people have been killed in the conflict.

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