People gather at the scene of a bomb attack on a police station in Istanbul’s Sultanbeyli district early on August 10, 2015. (Twitter)
At least five police officers and two civilians have been injured in a bomb attack on a police station in Turkish city of Istanbul.
The blast hit the police station building in the Sultanbeyli neighborhood early on Monday morning, the state-run Anadolu Agency reported.
Part of the three-storey building collapsed in the ensuing blazes that engulfed the police station.
It also inflicted some damage on the neighboring buildings and some 20 cars parked in its vicinity.
The area was quickly cordoned off by police to stop the gathering of curious onlookers.
No one has claimed responsibility for the bombing, which comes at a time of heightened tensions between Kurdish militants and Turkey.
Ankara has recently launched a wave of airstrikes against purported Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) positions in Iraq.
A shaky ceasefire that had stood since 2013 was declared as null by PKK following the airstrikes against the group, narrowing chances of the two sides reaching a deal in the near future.
The PKK has been fighting for an autonomous Kurdish region inside Turkey since the 1980s. The conflict has left tens of thousands of people dead.
Source: presstv