Bomb attack targeting police rocks Turkish city of Diyarbakir

A car bomb attack targeting police on Tuesday rocked the majority-Kurdish Turkish city of Diyarbakir, wounding at least 15 members of the security forces, AFP reports.

The explosion went off in the district of Baglar in the centre of the city and was a "terrorist" attack, the state-run Anatolia news agency said.

Television channels CNN-Turk and NTV said that at least 15 police had been wounded in the explosion. The Dogan news agency said some civilians in the area were also wounded.

Diyarbakir and its region have in recent months been hit by repeated attacks by the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) as the military presses a relentless offensive against the Kurdish militants.

Earlier, two police had been killed in a bomb attack blamed on the PKK in a district of the southeastern city of Van to the east which had so far been spared the worst of the fighting.