{A bomb attack outside the main police station in the city of Gaziantep killed one police officer and injured 13 others.}<\/p>\n
A bomb attack outside the police headquarters in Turkey’s southeastern city of Gaziantep has killed one police officer and injured several others, officials said.<\/p>\n
Turkish media reported that an explosive-laden vehicle blew up next to the safety barriers at the entrance of the city’s main police station on Sunday.<\/p>\n
Governor Ali Yerlikaya told CNN Turk that 13 people, including nine police officers, were injured in the explosion.<\/p>\n
All roads in the region have been closed down as a safety precaution and police sources are now trying to find a white commercial vehicle linked to the bombing, DHA news agency said.<\/p>\n
Police on edge<\/p>\n
Al Jazeera’s Stefanie Dekker, reporting from Gaziantep, arrived at the explosion site 10 minutes after the blast.<\/p>\n
“I counted at least six ambulances at the scene,” she said. “We didn’t see any smoke but we smelled it in the air.”<\/p>\n
Reporters were told that there may be a threat of another attack.<\/p>\n
Our correspondent said she noticed that police officers at the station were “extremely nervous”.<\/p>\n
“Police officers wouldn’t let anyone come within 100 metres of the police headquarters,” she said. “They are literally cocking their weapons at anyone that approaches.<\/p>\n
“At some point there was a woman, who came very close, and a police officer cocked his weapon and yelled at her to get back.”<\/p>\n
Dekker said roads around the police station had already been blocked off before the explosion, possibly due to an expected May 1 rally.<\/p>\n
A May 1 rally in the city of Adana was cancelled earlier on Sunday as a result of a suicide bomb threat.<\/p>\n
Elsewhere in Turkey on Sunday, three soldiers were killed and 14 others wounded in an attack blamed on Kurdish fighters during a military operation in the southeastern town of Nusaybin, Turkey’s army said in a statement.<\/p>\n
Turkey’s largely Kurdish southeast has been hit by waves of violence in clashes between government security forces and members of the outlawed Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) after a ceasefire fell apart last July.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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