Ankara attack: one of bombers was PKK member, Turkish officials say

A female member of the outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ party (PKK) was one of two suspected perpetrators of a car bombing that killed 37 people in Ankara on Sunday, Turkish security officials said, as the president vowed to bring terrorism “to its knees”.


The officials told Reuters that evidence had been obtained that one of the bombers was a woman who joined the militant PKK in 2013. She was born in 1992 and was from the eastern Turkish city of Kars, they said. There has been no claim of responsibility.

The Turkish health minister, Mehmet Müezzinoglu, said the death toll had risen overnight from 34, with 71 people still being treated in hospital, of whom 15 were in a serious condition.The body of an attacker had been found at the scene, he added.

The suicide bomb attack is the third such assault in the Turkish capital in five months. Last month, a similar blast killed 29 people when a suicide bomber targeted military personnel only blocks away from Sunday’s attack. The militant group Kurdistan Freedom Hawks claimed responsibility.


source;Reuters