Turkish police gun down suspected bomber in Mersin
Turkish police have shot dead a suspected bomber, who wanted to attack a police station, in the southern city of Mersin.
Turkey’s private Dogan news agency reported that the incident took place in Mersin’s Yenisehir district on Wednesday, when police began trailing a suspicious man and opened fire as he refused to stop near the police station.
The targeted police station is said to be situated next to the regional headquarters of Turkey’s MIT national intelligence agency.
Mersin Chief Public Prosecutor Mustafa Ercan told state-run Anadolu Agency that police teams had “averted an important attack.”
The victim, who was wearing an explosive vest, was suspected of being a member of the Daesh terrorist Takfiri group, Ercan added.
Bomb disposal experts are now working to defuse the bomber’s explosive device.
Daesh has previously carried out deadly gun and bomb attacks in Turkey.
Over 5,000 Daesh suspects have been detained and about 3,290 foreign militants deported from Turkey in recent years, officials say.
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