One person was killed and four others were injured after an explosion hit a bus carrying prison guards in the northwestern province of Bursa on Wednesday.
The shuttle bus was transporting guards to their place of work when the blast ripped through the vehicle around 7:30 a.m. local time, Hurriyyet reported.
The province's governor said in a statement that a "probably handmade" explosive caused the blast that killed "a personnel." Governor Yakup Canbolat told reporters that one of the injured was in critical condition.
The vehicle was traveling through a residential area in Bursa's central Osmangazi district. It was near a metro station when the explosive device, believed to be remote-controlled and left on the roadside, went off. The driver managed to stop the bus some 100 meters from the spot. The bus was heavily damaged with all windows shattered.
