15
people were wounded and a three-year old child confirmed dead in a deadly car
bomb attack that took place in southeastern Turkish city of Viransehir
according to the provincial governor.
Friday's explosion
occurred near the lodgings of judges and prosecutors in Viransehir
in Sanliurfa province, Gungor Azim Tuna was quoted by Turkey's Anadolu
news agency as saying.
The dead child was the
son of a court worker, he said, adding that the wounded were taken to hospital
but were not believed to have any serious injuries.
Tuna said the blast
was a "terror attack" caused by a parked vehicle that was loaded with
explosives and detonated using a remote control.
Bekir Bozdag, Turkey's
justice minister, said on Twitter that no attack would weaken the
country's fight against "terror".
"Our determined
and effective fight against terror will continue," he said.
No group immediately
claimed the attack, and Bozdag did not say which organisation the government
suspected.
Turkey was hit by a
series of attacks in 2016 blamed on Kurdish fighters and the Islamic State of
Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) group, killing hundreds of people.
The current year also
had a deadly start, with a New Year's attack on a Istanbul nightclub which left
39 people dead, most of them foreigners.
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