Bomb attack leaves 9 Turkish police officers injured

WORLD, Dec. 16 (YPA) – At least nine people were injured when a roadside bomb exploded and targeted a vehicle carrying Turkish police officers in southeast Turkey’s Diyarbakir province on Friday morning.

According to the “Anadolu News Agency, A bomb was detonated inside a parked roadside vehicle as a riot police minibus was passing by the highway connecting the Diyarbakir and Mardin provinces, during the early morning hours of Friday.

Nine people were injured in total, eight of whom were police officers. They were taken to hospitals in the area, the agency reported.

Security forces  arrested five suspects in connection with the attack.

E.M