ANKARA (Sputnik) — Earlier in the day, Turkish Prime Minister Binali Yildirim said three people, including a police officer and two civilians died in the explosion, while 30 people sustained injuries, five of whom were in serious condition. Ankara accused the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) of carrying out the attack.
According to the Turkish Milliyet newspaper, two police officers injured in the bombing died in a hospital, while the number of those wounded exceeded 50.
Violence in Turkey escalated in mid-2015, when the Turkish government launched a military campaign against the PKK, which is considered a terrorist organization by Ankara, in the country's southeast.
A couple that killed by PKK bomb im Midyat today. Most of the 51 injured are children were playing in a play ground pic.twitter.com/NDAWz9xxGy
— Memet Aksakal (Eng) (@Fixer_Turkey) June 8, 2016
