Armed attack in a police station in Turkey. Two policemen were killed and two others are injured
Two policemen were shot dead and two others were injured on Monday, September 8, in front of a police station in the city of Western Turkey, the Turkish Minister of the Interior announced.
Armed attack in a Police section of Izmir/Photo: X
The images broadcast by the Turkish television showed a police cord in front of the section where the attack took place on Monday morning, writes News.ro.
The forensic police were sent to the scene, according to the same images.
A video recording filmed by a local and taken over by several Turkish media shows a young man holding a long pipe rifle in his hands, which seems to run from the place of attack.
“I condemn the odious attack against the Police Section Salih Isgören in Balçova“, Wrote the mayor of Izmir, Cemil Tugay on X.
Turkey was in the past the target of the attacks of Kurdish militants, Islamist groups and extreme-left organizations, security forces and government institutions are often among targets.
Izmir, the third largest city of Turkey, on the Aegean Sea coast, was hit by militant attacks in the past, including a trap car attack in front of a court, in 2017, who killed two people, says Reuters.
