Turkish Interior Minister Suleyman Soylu said on Wednesday that an investigation showed an explosion that killed at least two people in the Kurdish majority city of Diyarbakir was a “terror attack”.
His comments came a day after the blast shook police headquarters which the minister had initially said was an accident that occurred during repairs on armored vehicles.
Speaking on Haber-Turk television, Soylu said the cause of the blast became clear on Tuesday night after a thorough investigation.
“It was a terror attack,” he said. The minister said one civilian technician employed at the facility was trapped under the rubble and died, and a policeman was also killed.
State-run news agency Anadolu reported a third individual had also died.
Some 12 people were lightly injured and were being treated at hospitals, Soylu added.
The minister said explosives had been placed underground, without elaborating further.
“We had first thought that someone had entered and laid (explosives) but they carried it out through a tunnel dug from outside,” he said.
“We scan the surrounding of our police buildings approximately once in every month, so as not to encounter any threat. It means they had placed it in a short period of time.”
No individual or group has claimed the attack.
Source: AFP
