Interior Minister Süleyman Soylu made a statement on Monday night, In the attack on the police station, a policeman was killed and a policeman was injured. From the city of Mersin in the south of the country. Several people got out of a vehicle approaching the police station and opened fire on the agents around 23:00 local time (22:00 Spanish peninsula time). A large number of police, health and firefighters were dispatched to the scene.
Soylu explained that after he went to the scene, both agents were transferred to hospitals, where one of the injured died, as both agents were seriously injured. The second member of the armed forces is receiving treatment at the hospital and His life is not in danger. Also, another victim is a woman who was hit by a bullet while sitting on the balcony. “Fortunately, his life is not in danger, we have information that his surgery is over,” said the minister.
The Ministry of the Interior reported a suspect has been arrested He has a gun. “Efforts continue to apprehend the perpetrators of the attack,” detailing the ministry’s portfolio in a statement gathered by the Turkish agency Anadolu.
Minister of Justice Bekir Bozdag said that the Chief Prosecutor’s Office launched an investigation into the attack. The interior minister blamed people linked to the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) after being questioned by journalists. Soylu said, “Our nation, everyone should know that whoever has a connection with this incident and who caused these terrorists to come here, we will find them.”