The Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) militants launched a car bomb attack on a police station in Turkey's southeastern town of Çınar overnight, killing six people and wounding 39, Today's Zaman quoted the provincial governor's office as saying on Thursday.

Militants of the PKK attacked the police station and adjoining accommodation in the town south of Diyarbakır, around 11:30 p.m. (2130 GMT), the governor's office said in a statement.

There was no immediate claim of responsibility for the attack.

The mainly Kurdish region has been hit by a surge in violence since a two-year ceasefire between the state and the PKK collapsed last July, reigniting a conflict that has killed more than 40,000 people over three decades.

The blast caused extensive damage around the police station, smashing windows on buildings and vehicles and mangling the shutters on shops in streets littered with shrapnel.

Coinciding with the bomb attack, PKK fighters opened fire with rifles on a nearby security complex, triggering a firefight, but no casualties were reported, the statement said.

The relatives of two police officers were killed in the car bomb attack, along with three people whose bodies were pulled from the wreckage, it added. Six police officers were among the wounded being treated in nearby hospitals.

Source: MENA