Major Shaitan Singh
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One Turkish soldier was killed and 11 were injured when a land mine exploded as a military bus was passing on a road in the Aegean town of Foça today.
The bus was carrying soldiers to the home of Turkeys marines at the Foça Naval Base in the Aegean province of İzmir when an explosive device, allegedly planted by suspected members of the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK), was remotely detonated at around 8 a.m.
The blast damaged the 24-passenger bus and shattered its windows, injuring the soldiers inside.
The explosion occurred 1.5 kilometers away from the base on a road recently opened to civilian traffic. The road is flanked by summer houses on one side and trees on the other. Several civilian vehicles were damaged in the blast.
Military and police respondents had already arrived at the scene when a second explosion hit a fire truck rushing to the blast zone, approximately eight minutes after the initial attack. No one was injured in the second blast, but the fire truck was hit by shrapnel.
The bus was carrying soldiers to the home of Turkeys marines at the Foça Naval Base in the Aegean province of İzmir when an explosive device, allegedly planted by suspected members of the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK), was remotely detonated at around 8 a.m.
The blast damaged the 24-passenger bus and shattered its windows, injuring the soldiers inside.
The explosion occurred 1.5 kilometers away from the base on a road recently opened to civilian traffic. The road is flanked by summer houses on one side and trees on the other. Several civilian vehicles were damaged in the blast.
Military and police respondents had already arrived at the scene when a second explosion hit a fire truck rushing to the blast zone, approximately eight minutes after the initial attack. No one was injured in the second blast, but the fire truck was hit by shrapnel.
