The NTV broadcaster said the security directorate building has been totaled in the aftermath, depicting images of the building`s carcass. Local correspondents described seeing a "large pit" at the site of the explosion.
Security sources told other outlets the purported car bomb explosion claimed many lives and caused several injuries. According to medical sources, nine people were killed and 64 wounded by the blast. Other reports claim that eight policemen were dead and 45 people injured.
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10:52
As a result of the terror attack committed near a police station, 3 policemen have been killed and 2 passers have been injured, Ozgur newspaper reported.
The building of the police station has been badly damaged.
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10:03
A number of those wounded have been taken to hospitals, according to the Anadolu news service, which claimed the Kurdistan Workers` Party (PKK) was behind the bombing. Two helicopters and 12 ambulance cars were sent to the scene.
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09:32
There are injured people, according to preliminary data.
Cizre is located on the border with Syria and Iraq, and has a largely Kurdish population. The place has been hit by numerous terrorist attacks. Tensions between Ankara and the Kurds escalated in July 2015 as fighting between the Kurdistan Workers` Party (PKK), the Kurdish pro-independence organization considered to be terrorist by Ankara, and the Turkish army resumed. Ankara has imposed several round-the-clock curfews in Kurdish-populated towns, preventing civilians from fleeing the regions where the military operations are taking place.
