Car Bomb Hits Police Checkpoint in Turkey, Kills 8

A car-bomb blast Friday in Cizre, southeast Turkey, has killed at least eight police officers and wounded scores of other people, hospital officials said. Local news channels showed a large plume of smoke filling the air after the explosion in the site that is believed to be a police checkpoint. Friday’s explosion took place around 6:30 a.m. local time (3:30 UTC). The town of Cizre is in Sirnak, a province that borders Syria and Iraq and has a largely Kurdish...

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