A Turkish minister says two people have died following two explosions at a Kurdish party election rally in southeast Turkey.
Mehdi Eker, the agriculture minister, said on Friday more than 100 people were injured in the explosions. It wasn’t immediately clear how many of those were seriously hurt.
Health Minister Mehmet Muezzinoglu had earlier said around 100 people were hurt in the incident and 20 to 24 of them were being treated in hospitals.
The blasts occurred five minutes apart at the pro-Kurdish People Democratic Party’s election rally in Diyarbakir, in Turkey’s predominantly Kurdish southeast.
Rally organizers first said a malfunctioning power distribution unit caused the explosions, but the country’s energy minister said they were caused by an “external interference” with the power unit, without saying whether he believed a bomb was involved.
PM claims the act as “sabotage and provocation.”
Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu says two explosions at a Kurdish party rally which killed two people just days before key parliamentary elections were acts of “sabotage and provocation.”
Turkey holds parliamentary elections on Sunday in which he Kurdish votes will be crucial in determining whether the ruling party gets the super-majority it seeks.
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