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Explosion in Turkey's main Kurdish city

DIYARBAKIR, Turkey, June 15, 2007 (AFP) - An explosion Friday in the centre of Diyarbakir, the main city in the mainly Kurdish southeastern Turkey, has left a number of people injured, local security sources said.

The cause of the blast was not immediately clear, but the sources said it could be a bomb.

Diyarbakir, a city of around one million people, is a hotbed of Kurdish separatist militancy.

The outlawed Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) took up arms for Kurdish self-rule in the southeast in 1984. The conflict has claimed more than 37,000 lives.