The entrance of a street which leads to the site of last night's explosion site, is blocked by canvas in Ankara, Turkey, February 18, 2016. Twenty-eight people were killed and dozens wounded in Turkey's capital Ankara on Wednesday when a car laden with explosives detonated next to military buses near the armed forces' headquarters, parliament and other government buildings. The Turkish military condemned what it described as a terrorist attack on the buses as they waited at traffic lights in the administrative heart of the NATO member's capital. PHOTO: REUTERS
DIYARBAKIR, TURKEY: A bomb detonated by remote control killed seven Turkish security force members traveling in a military vehicle in southeast Turkey on Thursday, security sources said, a day after a car bomb attack in the capital Ankara killed 28 people.
Twin bombs kill 86 at pro-Kurdish rally in Turkish capital
The blast hit the armored vehicle on the highway linking Diyarbakir, the largest city in the mainly Kurdish southeast, to the district of Lice. Sources had previously said the explosion hit a convoy of vehicles.
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