At least one person has died and 13 were injured in a car bomb blast near a police headquarters in the Turkish city of Gaziantep, officials say.<\/p>\n
The blast hit the southern city, 10km (six miles) from the Syrian border, at about 09:30 local time (06:30 GMT).<\/p>\n
CNN Turk said the blast was heard several kilometres away.<\/p>\n
Turkey has been hit by a series of deadly blasts over the past year, linked either to Kurdish militants or so-called Islamic State (IS).<\/p>\n
Ankara, Istanbul and Bursa are among cities that have been targeted by suicide bombings.<\/p>\n
Nine of the injured were police officers, Gaziantep’s regional governor was quoted as saying.<\/p>\n
How dangerous is Turkey’s instability?<\/strong> Gaziantep is known to have several IS cells.<\/p>\n In another development, Turkish police detained four suspected IS members, the Anadolu news agency reports.<\/p>\n The four were thought to be preparing to launch an attack in Ankara during Sunday’s May Day parades.<\/p>\n Separately three Turkish soldiers were killed and 14 others wounded in an attack that the army blamed on Kurdish militants of the PKK.<\/p>\n An army statement said the attack took place in Mardin province, where the army has been conducting a military operation against the PKK.<\/p>\n –<\/p>\n Source: BBC<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" At least one person has died and 13 were injured in a car bomb blast near a police headquarters in the Turkish city of Gaziantep, officials say. The blast hit the southern city, 10km (six miles) from the Syrian border, at about 09:30 local time (06:30 GMT). CNN Turk said the blast was heard several […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":210665,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[107],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-210664","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-international"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210664","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=210664"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210664\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/210665"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=210664"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=210664"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=210664"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nSome reports said gunfire was heard after the blast. There was no immediate word on who is behind the latest blast.<\/p>\n