Firefighters and police work in the police station which were attacked by militants, in the Cizre district of Turkey's province of Sirnak on Aug. 26, 2016. Eight Turkish police officers were killed and 50 people were wounded in a bomb-laden truck attack in front of a police station in the Cizre district of Turkey's province of Sirnak on Friday, local media reported. (Xinhua/Mert Macit)
ANKARA, Aug. 26 (Xinhua) -- At least 11 police officers were killed and 78 people were wounded in a bomb attack at a police station in southeastern Turkey on Friday, Dogan News Agency reported.
A car bomb by Kurdish Workers' Party (PKK) militants hit a police station in Turkey's southeastern Sirnak province at 6:40 am local time ( 3:40 GMT). The police station building was seriously damaged.
Turkish Health minister Recep Akdag said more than 70 people were wounded in the attack with four of them in a critical condition.
Main opposition Republican People's Party (CHP) leader Kemal Kilicdaroglu described the bombing as a very worrying terror attack.
The wounded were sent to local hospital. Twelve ambulances, many police forces and two helicopters were dispatched after the attack.
Over 600 members of Turkish security forces and thousands of PKK members have been killed in confrontations inside Turkey and in northern Iraq since July of 2015, and Turkish forces have killed over 7000 PKK militants, local media figured.
More than 40,000 people have lost their lives in clashes with the PKK since 1984, when the group first started anti-government attacks.
The PKK is listed as a terrorist organization by the United States, the European Union and Turkey.
