Three jailed for life in Turkey for 2016 bomb that killed 36


  • World
  • Wednesday, 21 Nov 2018

ISTANBUL (Reuters) - Three men have been jailed for life in Turkey for a 2016 car bombing that killed 36 people and wounded 344 in a crowded transport hub in Ankara, the state-run Anadolu agency reported on Wednesday.

The bomb was the second to hit the capital in the space of a month, and was one of a series of attacks nationwide that began in mid-2015, at the start of around 1-1/2 years of heightened security threats from the Islamic State militant group and the separatist Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) militia.

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