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Suicide bomber dies in foiled attack on Turkish police station

One attacker is thought to be still at large after attack foiled at main police centre in Gaziantep
Special force police officers patrol in Gaziantep (AFP)

Turkish police killed a would-be suicide bomber who tried to enter the main police station in the southeastern city of Gaziantep on Tuesday, a security official told Reuters.

Television channels reported that a gunfight broke out in front of the complex and that ambulances had been sent to the area.

Eyewitnesses said one police officer was wounded in the incident while a dead person, presumed to be an attacker, was lying on the ground in front of the police station, Dogan news agency reported.

Video captured at the scene shows the aftermath of the incident:

It was the latest in a series of violent incidents to have rocked Turkey in recent weeks. On New Year's Day a gunman killed 39 revellers inside a popular Istanbul nightclub in an attack claimed by Islamic State militants.

Four days later, attackers who officials suspect were Kurdish militants clashed with police and detonated a car bomb in Izmir, western Turkey, killing a police officer and a court employee.

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