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PKK claims responsibility for Turkey blast

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The militant Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK)has claimed responsibility for a suicide car bomb attack targeting a police station in the eastern Turkish city of Elazig on Thursday.

The claim was made in a statement on a PKK website.

Three officers were killed and 217 people were wounded, 85 of them police officers in the Elazig attack, one of a series bombing blamed on the PKK which killed a total of 10 people within less than 24 hours.

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