ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — Turkey’s state-run news agency says at least nine people have been injured by a car bomb in southeast Turkey.

Anadolu Agency says the explosion occurred Monday close to lodgings housing courthouse employees at the town of Ovacik, in Tunceli province.

Last week, two separate car bomb explosions claimed by Kurdish militants killed 17 in Istanbul and the southern town of Midyat.

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