ISIS have claimed responsibility on Diyarbakir
car blast
It will be recall on Thursday bomb blast rocked the central town of Diyarbakir which killed about nine people and injured more than hundred after an arrest was carried out on Kurdish political leaders.
Anadolu news agency reported that there was a car bomb targeting a police station which ended up killing two police men ans seven other civilians in the southeastern part of Diyarbakir, Turkey.
Terrified people running after the car blast
An attack that was not sure of group behind it but later in the evening of Friday, rumour broke-out online through Amaq agency said to be working in-hand with ISIS who have since claimed responsibility of the attack.
However Prime Minister Binali Yildirim said out of the 100 injured people, 93 have so far be discharged from hospitals while the rest are still receiving treatment.
Earlier on, Kurdish Workers Party (PKK) was accused of the blast by the Turkish authorities because of the conflicts that has been between Turkey and the Kurdish.
Cars and buildings wrecked in the blast
Provincial governor's office in Diyarbakir reported that a blast has damaged buildings and cars in the highly Kurdish populated province of Baglar district in central Diyarbakir.
This has led the the government of president Tayyip Recep Erdogan in blocking social medias like Facebook, Skype, WhatsApp and YouTube in order not to escalate the current situation in the country.
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