Two Turkish police officers have been killed by gunmen who opened fire on their vehicle in the northern province of Samsun.
According to the Anatolia news agency, unidentified armed men targeted a police patrol car in the Ladik district of Samsun late on Saturday. Police officer Huseyin Koc was killed instantly in the crossfire while Malik Soysal succumbed to his injuries at the hospital.
The Turkish police forces believe that three assailants, who took cover at a five-story construction site, were behind the attack.
Samsun Governor Hasan Basri Guzeloglu told reporters on Sunday that initial findings suggested that the attack was a "terrorist ambush." He added that an operation had been launched by the country's security forces to hunt down the perpetrators.
Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan issued a statement, condemning the attack.
"Such malicious attacks targeting Turkey's peace, unity, and solidarity can never reach their aims. The damned mentality behind these attacks, which hopes to benefit from terror, is bound to fail thanks to the common sense… of our nation and the determination of our state," Erdogan said in the statement.
Source: PressTV.
Link: http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=123726§ionid=351020204.
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