Car bomb

Gojira, the French metal band that made a stunning impression with their explosive performance at the opening ceremony of the Paris Olympic Games, will have the opportunity to perform live for the Greek audience in a few months.

50-year-old Slobodan Trninic died on Tuesday morning in a car bomb explosion in Prnjavor, a small town near Sabac in western Serbia.

Belgrade-based Blic is reporting that the device was planted under his car, and that the explosion resulted in glass and parts of the vehicle ending up "40 meters away from the site."

At least 10 people have been injured in a blast near the city court in the western city of Izmir, reported Reuters, citing Turkish media.

Local authorities reported the attack was carried out with a car bomb.

Two police officers were killed in a bomb attack on a police headquarters in the southeastern province of Gaziantep on the morning of May 1, Gov. Ali Yerlikaya has confirmed. 

At least 18 policemen and four civilians were injured in the suspected car bomb attack that was carried out around 9:20 a.m. 

30 people were killed in Iraq Monday when a suicide bomber drove a car with explosives into a convoy of military vehicles. The terrorist was a British born Muslim known by the name ‘Abu Mussa al Britani and detonated his car while approaching an Iraqi military convoy near the air base of Ain al-Assad in central Iraq.

A bomb-laden car parked near a government office was found in the Hani district of the southeastern province of Diyarbak?r late March 17. 

Since the last Ankara attack we have been discussing the flaw in our security. Of course, we should be discussing a security flaw, as it had not even been a full month since the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) last attacked the capital city with another car bomb. 

(Update: 13:26) According to Newspaper ‘Bild’, the explsoion is not connected to terrorism, but most probably to organised crime. ‘Τagesspiegel’ newsapaper reports that according to eyewitnesses the dead person is the car driver, who died while trying to free himself from the flaming vehicle.

Several people are feared dead after a blast rattled Kizilay district in the central part of Turkey's capital Ankara on Sunday evening, Anadolu Agency reported.

Several fire-fighting trucks and ambulances were seen rushing towards the area of the explosion, the Turkish news agency said.

A vehicle laden with 500kg of explosives, Kalashnikov rifles and ammunition, was apprehended by gendarmerie officials in the southeastern province of Diyarbak?r late on Feb. 18, the Governor's Office has stated, just two days after a car bomb targeting military personnel shuttles killed 28 in the capital Ankara.