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DIYARBAKIR, Turkey - A bomb exploded at a bus station in the southeastern Turkish city of Diyarbakir on Friday, injuring four civilians and a soldier, security officials said.
The bomb targeted the mainly Kurdish city's busiest street and a bus station used by army and civilian buses. The police launched an operation in the city after the blast and bomb experts tried to find out what kind of bomb had caused it. The street was closed to traffic.
Tensions are running especially high amid increasing clashes between Turkish troops and Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) guerrillas in southeastern Turkey.
The clashes have fuelled talk of a possible major Turkish army incursion into northern Iraq to attack PKK bases there.
In May, eight people were killed when a suicide bomber struck a shopping mall in the capital Ankara. Authorities blamed the attack on the PKK. though the group denied involvement.
- REUTERS
