(Izmir) A police officer and a court worker were killed in the city of Izmir when police officers tried to stop a vehicle at a checkpoint outside a courthouse and
that the attackers detonated the car bomb while trying to escape. Arms
including Kalashnikov rifles, hand grenades and ammunition for rocket-propelled
grenade launchers were found at the scene
Police shot dead two attackers and are currently searching for a third.
The bombing comes less than a week after a gunman shot dead
39 people at a nightclub in Istanbul on New Year's Day in an attack claimed by
Islamic State. The gunman is still at large. There has so far been no claim of
responsibility however Izmir governor
Erol Ayyildiz has stated that initial evidence suggested the PKK – A Kurdish group
which has fought a deadly insurgency for over three decades -- was behind the
attack, rather than ISIS.
