A blast bomb was thrown to a shuttle bus of the Police Vocational School on the Silvan highway in Diyarbakır. For police officers were wounded. The person who threw the bomb was injured as well and caught by the police.
The minibus was hit by the bomb on Thursday (15 September) when the vehicle stopped at a red light at the University junction right next to the Regional Directorate of Agricultural Research.
Eye witnesses reported that a person with a long-barrelled weapon threw the supposedly self-made bomb to the shuttle. Four policemen were injured by pieces of broken glass when the windows burst due to the explosion. The wounded police officers were taken with the very same shuttle bus to the State Hospital for medical treatment.
The assailant was caught by the police about half an hour later in a shootout close to the Regional Directorate of Agricultural Research. He was taken to the Military Hospital for the medical treatment of his injury.
The Governor of Diyarbakır, Mustafa Toprak, announced that the wounded policemen were not in a critical condition.
Noise bomb in public bus
Also on Thursday, an explosion occurred in Istanbul when the driver of a public bus threw an abandoned bag that had been left on a seat out of the bus onto the street. It was stated that parts found on the scene in a preliminary investigation suggested that the explosive was a noise bomb.
The bus was on its route from Cevizlibağ to Sefaköy (European side of Istanbul) via a side road of the E5 motorway. Passengers discovered the abandoned bag at the foot space of one of the seats. They saw a mechanism on top of the bag and asked the bus driver to stop.
Thereupon, the bus driver stopped the bus in front of the Bahçelievler Kadir Has Business Centre, took the bag and threw it to the side of the road where it exploded.
Official and plainclothes police officers were sent to the scene and the specialists of the Crime Scene Investigation and bomb exposal experts investigated the incident. The experts found pieces that were supposedly part of a noise bomb. Footage of the MOBESE public cameras will be investigated, too. (AS/VK)
