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Roadside bombing in southeast Turkey kills five civilians

While no group has yet to claim responsibility for the attack, Ankara is pointing the finger at the outlawed Kurdistan Workers Party.
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Five civilians are dead following a car bombing in Turkey’s restive southeast, local officials said Wednesday. According to a statement from the governor’s office in the Kurdish-populated Diyarbakir province, roadside bombs hit a car carrying a group of forestry workers in the town of Gulec in the Kulp district. 

Security forces are now looking for the perpetrators, which the governor’s office said were "members of the PKK terror organization," referring to the armed insurgent group inside Turkey known as the Kurdistan Workers Party. 

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