Anti-Daesh raid in southeast Turkey injures 4 policemen

ANKARA

Four Turkish policemen were injured in a blast during an operation against Daesh in an apartment building in Turkey’s southeastern Gaziantep province Sunday, security forces said.

According to Turkish security sources, when the Daesh suspect realized that Turkish police had surrounded his flat in Gaziantep's Sehitkamil district, he blew himself up.

Police identified the deceased as Halil Ibrahim Durgun, who was allegedly one of the drivers that transported two suspected suicide bombers to Ankara for the twin bombings on Oct.10 that killed over 100 people.

The anti-terrorism branch and special operations forces carried out the operation in Beylerbeyi Street. The blast occurred after security forces broke the door of the suspect's flat.

One of the four wounded policemen is in a critical condition, officials said.

Since July, security forces in the country have been conducting anti-terrorist operations across Turkey after a Daesh suicide bombing killed dozens of people in Suruc, Sanliurfa province on July 20. Another terrorist attack killed more than 100 people in Ankara on Oct. 10.