News published a statement by the Turkish Armed Forces. While the attack comes at the same time with what happened in other southeastern province of Gaziantep, where a car bomb exploded near the entrance gate of the Police Station, killing a police officer.
The attack occurred in Mardin comes just a day after the military announced the death of a captain shot by a sniper PKK, again in Nusaybin, suburbs not only that which is under curfew from 14 March, as soldiers have been dismantled a bomb placed there by Kurdish militants.
Alper captain was injured during clashes Kalem born unexpectedly, when a group of soldiers trying to remove a bomb from the street the morning of 30 April. Kalem was transported to hospital, but later died of his injuries. In the same district, two police officers and a soldier was wounded in a rocket attack by an armored vehicle. Earlier in April 30, the military announced that Turkish warplanes had destroyed the PKK targets in northern Iraq.
Regarding today's attack in Gaziantep, a police officer was later killed by car bomb at the entrance gate of the Police Station in the southeastern province of Turkey, a news published by Turkish media and confirmed by Governor Ali Yerlikaya. The attack occurred Sunday morning.
At least 18 police officers and 4 civilians were injured. Television footage of the "CNN" Turkish -it showed that the attack occurred just before the main entrance of the police station. Meanwhile, parts of the vehicle were blown everywhere.
Dozens of ambulances and vehicles firemen arrived at the scene, while the explosion is thought to be heard kilometers away. Various news agencies say the shots were heard after the explosion, but this still expected confirmations.