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Suicide truck bomb blamed on PKK kills 11 police in Turkey

Smoke rises from buildings at the site of a car bomb explosion at police headquarters in Cizre, located in Turkey's Sirnak province

Cizre: A suicide truck bombing at a police headquarters in Turkey's largely Kurdish southeast killed at least 11 and wounded dozens on Friday, two days after Turkey launched an incursion against Islamic State and Kurdish militia fighters in Syria.

Prime Minister Binali Yildirim said there was no doubt that the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK), which has waged a three-decade insurgency for Kurdish autonomy, was responsible for the attack in Sirnak province, which borders Syria and Iraq.

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