Two suicide bombers have blown themselves up near the Turkish capital, Ankara, after they were approached by police.<\/p>\n
The militants, believed to be a male and female, were suspected of planning to carry out a car bomb attack, the state-run Anadolu news agency reports.<\/p>\n
They detonated the devices after they were asked to surrender their weapons.<\/p>\n
Police had been acting on a tip-off, Ankara’s governor said, suggesting a link to Kurdish separatists.<\/p>\n
Erkan Topaca said police had found the pair hiding at a horse farm in the district of Haymana, just outside the capital.<\/p>\n
He said: “The organisation they are connected to is not clear yet but according to information we have received it is highly likely that [the man] is linked to the PKK (Kurdistan Workers Party).”<\/p>\n
The BBC’s Mark Lowen in Ankara says the pair were said to be flying a Turkish flag from their car as cover and a third person is now being sought.<\/p>\n
Plastic explosives and ammonium nitrate were found with the vehicle.<\/p>\n
Kurdish militants have carried out a wave of bombings across Turkey since a ceasefire broke down in 2015.<\/p>\n
The Turkish president has vowed that the PKK, which has waged a four-decades-long fight in Turkey, will be “annihilated”.<\/p>\n
But, our correspondent says, with the attacks continuing and hostility deepening between Kurds and the Turkish state, there is little sign of the insurgency ending and neither side has shown a willingness to return to peace negotiations.<\/p>\n
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Source: BBC<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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