People walk past a damaged car after a blast in the Kurdish-dominated southeastern Turkish city of Diyarbakir, Nov. 4, 2016. (Photo by Reuters)
Several people have sustained injuries after a bomb explosion rocked the residence of a district governor in the restive province of Mardin in southeast Turkey on Thursday.
The blast took place in the district of Derik after which several ambulances were sent to the scene of the incident.
It was not immediately clear who was behind the explosion, but Turkey’s Ihlas news agency said the blast had been caused by a rocket attack by Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) militants.
Ankara has been engaged in a large-scale campaign against PKK militants in its southern border region in the past few months. The Turkish military has been pounding the group’s positions in northern Iraq as well.
Turkey’s operations began in the wake of a deadly July 2015 bombing in the southern town of Suruc. Over 30 people died in the attack, which the Turkish government blamed on Daesh.
After the bombing, PKK militants who accuse the government of supporting Daesh, launched a series of attacks against Turkish police and security forces, prompting the the army to carry out a massive operation in the country’s southeast.