Death toll from Ankara suicide bombing rises to nine Print E-mail
Written by Anti-Terror Group   
Tuesday, 19 June 2007
The death toll from a suicide bombing last month in Ankara rose to nine, including the bomber, when one of the wounded died in hospital on Monday, the Anatolia news agency reported. The latest person to die, a 21-year-old woman, had been under treatment for serious head injuries since the attack on May 22. The explosion that ripped through a busy central commercial district in Ankara during the evening rush hour also wounded about 120 people.

  Turkish officials blamed the attack on a former far-left militant believed to have joined the ranks of the separatist Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK), an outlawed group fighting for self-rule in Turkey's southeast.

  The PKK denied any involvement in the attack.

  More than 37,000 people have been killed since the PKK, blacklisted by Ankara and much of the international community, took up arms against the Ankara government in 1984.
 
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