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Blast kills one, injures four in southeast Turkey

DIYARBAKIR, Turkey, June 8, 2006 (AFP) - One person was killed and four others injured Thursday in an explosion in the province of Sirnak in mainly Kurdish southeastern Turkey, hospital sources said.

There was no immediate official word on the cause of the blast but police sources said it might have been a bomb.

The explosion occurred under a car parked in the center of the town of Cizre, near the border with Iraq.

No other details were immediately available.

Southeastern Turkey has been the theater of a bloody Kurdish rebellion since 1984, when the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK), blacklisted as a "terrorist" group by Ankara, the European Union and the United States, began fighting for Kurdish self-rule in the region.

The conflict has claimed more than 37,000 lives.