One Killed in Attack on Police in Turkey
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Assailants hurled a hand grenade at a police vehicle in the southeastern city of Diyarbakir on Wednesday, killing a police officer and wounding four other people, reports and officials said.
Two other police officers and two passers-by were among the wounded, Diyarbakir Gov. Huseyin Avni Mutlu said.
The state-run Anatolia news agency said the vehicle was attacked with a hand grenade.
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The blast occurred at a busy market crowded with people shopping before Friday's festival, which marks the end of the holy month of Ramadan, CNN-Turk television reported.
The station had reported earlier that a child was killed in the blast, but Mutlu said the dead person was a police officer.
Police sealed off the area where the blast occurred and journalists were not allowed in.
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There was no immediate claim of responsibility for the attack. But Kurdish rebels, fighting for autonomy in the region, have carried out similar attacks in the past.