Cizre attack on August 26, 2016
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In the attack in Cizre on August 26, 2016, a suicide bomber blew himself up in front of the Turkish police in a truck loaded with explosives . The attacker and 11 police officers were killed and 78 people injured. Another police officer later died from his injuries in the hospital.
Course of events
The explosion occurred at a police checkpoint in Cizre , Şırnak province , around 50 meters from the buildings of the district police headquarters and the praesidium of the “Çevik Kuvvet”, a police stand-by force to contain riots . The three-story police headquarters were badly damaged by the force of the explosion and a material depot went up in flames.
The PKK assumed responsibility for the attack . She said the attack was carried out in retaliation against the prolonged isolation of Abdullah Ocalan .
Web links
- Cizre: 11 dead, scores injured in truck bomb attack on police headquarters in south-east Turkey, abc.net
- Cizre'de polis kontrol noktasına terör saldırısı, sabah.com (Turkish)