Four officers were hurt when they accidentally set off a bomb while trying to dispose of it at Istanbul's police force headquarters, the Anatolia news agency reported, quoted by AFP.
The explosion occurred on the third floor of the building --in the Aksaray district in the city's European quarter -- which houses the anti-terrorism and bomb disposal departments, the report said.
The powerful blast shattered all the windows on the third floor.
There was no further information on the blast, or the perpetrators.
On January 24, Gaffar Okkan, the police chief of the mainly Kurdish southeastern city of Diyarbakir, and five of his men were killed in an attack believed to be carried out by Hizbollah, an Islamist radical group accused of plotting to overthrow Turkey's secular regime.
One of the group’s leaders was killed in a shootout in Diyarbakir three days ago -- Albawaba.com
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