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Turkey aborts bombing intelligence building with some 500 kg of explosives

ISTANBUL, March 28 (KUNA) -- Turkish authorities have aborted planned bombing of a building housing offices for the central intelligence in the southeast of the country.
"Khabar Turk" website reported on Friday that up to 495 of explosives were set to go off and blow up the building in the province of Shirnak. But police arrested two members of the Workers Party of Kurdistan (the PKK) while the pair were trying to plant the explosives.
The PKK, a group based in the southeast of the country, advocates establishing a separate Kurdish entity. (end) ta.rk KUNA 281256 Mar 08NNNN