6 years have passed since PKK’s Dürümlü Massacre in Diyarbakır
6 years have passed since the PKK organization killed 16 civilians in the Dürümlü village of Turkey’s southeastern Diyarbakır province.
The Dürümlü massacre was a truck bombing that took place in Dürümlü hamlet in Diyarbakir's Sur district, Turkey on 12 May 2016 at approximately 22:30 local time.
As a result of the attack, 16 villagers were killed and 26 villagers were wounded. All of the victims who died in the blast were relatives.
According to local sources, PKK members hijacked a truck from Bingöl province, loaded it with 15 tons of explosives, then brought it to the village to detonate it in another area. After the villagers got suspicious of the parked truck, PKK members fled the village. As the villagers closed in on them, they detonated the truck.
The People's Defense Forces (HPG), the military wing of the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK), accepted that the truck was driven by members of the HPG, but the HPG also claimed that the explosives should have detonated elsewhere and that the truck only detonated as villagers opened fire on the truck. (ILKHA)