A large explosion rocked an area near a police station in the eastern Turkish town of Elazig and several people were wounded, Turkish media reported, hours after a car bomb killed three people and wounded 40 elsewhere in the region.
Video footage obtained by the private Dogan news agency showed a large plume of smoke rising from the area of the blast, the cause of which was not clear.
Elaz?? Deputy Mayor Mahmut Varol said vehicles in front of the building had been burnt due to the detonation of a car bomb, although he did not provide any information on casualties.
"The first video coming from the scene shows that there are people injured, there are ambulances at the scene, taking the injured away," said Al Jazeera's Reza Sayah, reporting from Gaziantep on the Turkish-Syrian border.
"Based on the images, this was a powerful explosion. Much of the building is destroyed. We see smoke in the air and a lot of people surrounding the scene looking very distraught."
Only hours earlier, three people, including a child, were killed and more than 70 wounded in a car bomb attack in Turkey's eastern city of Van carried out by members of the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) fighters, Turkish officials said.
The PKK attack targeted a police headquarters in the central Ipekyolu district of Van city, Van deputy governor Mehmet Parlak was quoted as saying by Turkey's state-run Anadolu news agency on Thursday.
Speaking to Anadolu, ruling AK Party's provincial head Zahir Soganda said 71 people were injured.
"Among the 71 injured, three of them are in a serious condition and 17 are police officers," Soganda said, who added that a child and a police officer were among the dead.
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