The February 2016 Lice bombing occurred on 18 February 2016 in
Lice
Louse ( : lice) is the common name for any member of the clade Phthiraptera, which contains nearly 5,000 species of wingless parasitic insects. Phthiraptera has variously been recognized as an order, infraorder, or a parvorder, as a result o ...
, a city in
Diyarbakır Province,
Turkey. The bombing consisted of a roadside bomb that killed 6 soldiers and injured another.
The Kurdish
HPG forces claimed responsibility for the attack.
See also
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March 2016 Diyarbakır bombing
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2008 Diyarbakır bombing
On 3 January 2008, at an estimated local time of 16:50 (14:50 UTC), a car bomb exploded in the city of Diyarbakır in south-eastern Turkey.
Target
First reports from the area indicated that the bomb, which exploded in the Dagkapi neighborhood of ...
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2015 Diyarbakır rally bombing
Fifteen or 15 may refer to:
*15 (number), the natural number following 14 and preceding 16
*one of the years 15 BC, AD 15, 1915, 2015
Music
*Fifteen (band), a punk rock band
Albums
* ''15'' (Buckcherry album), 2005
* ''15'' (Ani Lorak album ...
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February 2016 Ankara bombing
The February 2016 Ankara bombing killed at least 30 people and injured 60 in the capital of Turkey. According to Turkish authorities, the attack targeted a convoy of vehicles carrying both civilian and military personnel working at the militar ...
, which occurred the day before
References
Military operations involving Turkey
Kurdish–Turkish conflict (2015–present)
Terrorist incidents in Turkey in 2016
February 2016 crimes in Asia
Kurdistan Workers' Party attacks
Terrorist incidents in Diyarbakır Province
February 2016 events in Turkey
Improvised explosive device bombings in 2016
Improvised explosive device bombings in Turkey
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