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Evidence shows Ankara bomber was female PKK member: Security sources

Published: 14 Mar 2016 - 11:41 am | Last Updated: 08 Nov 2021 - 07:07 am
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This picture taken on March 13, 2016, shows a burning car after a blast in Ankara. AFP


ANKARA: Evidence shows that one of two suspected perpetrators of a car bomb attack which killed 37 people in the Turkish capital Ankara was a woman who joned the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) militant group in 2013, security officials said on Monday.

They identified the woman as having been born in 1992 and being from the eastern Turkish city of Kars.

REUTERS