A female suicide bomber blew herself up on Friday in front of a mosque in the Turkish Black Sea city of Ordu, injuring two other people in the explosion, including a suspected accomplice, police said.
In a separate incident, a small bomb left on a road close to a military headquarters in the mainly Kurdish city of Diyarbakir went off, slightly injuring two people inside a car, an official from the mayor's office said.
Meanwhile, commandos backed by attack helicopters tracked down and killed six guerrillas they said were responsible for the recent deaths of five Turkish soldiers, the state-run Anatolia news agency said yesterday.
The explosions followed the worst street rioting in Turkey in a decade, which has left 16 people dead, mostly Kurdish rioters. A militant Kurdish group had vowed to step up attacks to avenge those deaths.
The woman blew herself up in front of the Yenimahalle mosque, near the fountains where the devout wash themselves before prayers, a police official said.
Another woman -- a suspected accomplice who was also carrying explosives -- and a man who was washing himself was injured, the official said.
A third bomber escaped the scene, the official said.
Police were investigating to see if the bombers may have been Kurdish rebels, the official said. Kurdish rebels and left-wing militants are active in the city.
Police believe the attackers may have been targeting a prayer meeting nearby and that the device went off accidentally, the official said.
The official was speaking on condition of anonymity because of rules that bar Turkish civil servants from speaking to journalists. Ordu is some 600km northeast of Ankara.
In Diyarbakir, a small, homemade bomb placed on a divider on a road caused the second blast, the official said. It went off just as a car belonging to the municipality passed by, injuring two, including an 11-year-old child.
Police believe that military vehicles that frequently used the road were targeted in that attack.
Meanwhile, the guerrillas killed by the commandos were said to be members of the main Kurdish guerrilla group, the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK), which has been fighting for autonomy for more than two decades in Turkey's mountainous, Kurdish-populated southeast. The group has also long recruited women as guerrillas.
The PKK is considered a terrorist organization by Turkey, the US and the EU.
Two other PKK guerrillas escaped during the clash late on Friday night, Anatolia reported.
The Turkish army has stepped up operations in the southeast following a week of rioting, bombings and increased militant attacks on Turkish security forces.
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