Turkey explosion: Car bomb kills child in Sanliurfa province

A child was killed and at least 15 people injured in a large
 car bomb blast in a town in southern Turkey, a regional governor says.

The explosion targeted a building housing judges and prosecutors in Viransehir, in Sanliurfa province, which
 borders Syria.

Provincial governor Gungor Azim Tuna told the state news agency Anadolu that a child aged three had been killed.

Turkish cities and towns have been hit by several attacks 
in the past year.

Anadolu quoted Mr Tuna as saying that the bomb, which
exploded at 20:45 local time (17:45 GMT), was detonated
 by remote control, after a man in his late teens or early 20s had left the car.

The child who died in the blast was the son of a court clerk, 
Mr Tuna said.

Justice Minister Bekir Bozdag condemned the attack which
 he said had specifically targeted the judiciary. He said it would not deter judges from doing their job.

The explosion shattered windows in nearby buildings and could be heard or seen throughout the town, witnesses 
said.

So far no group has said it was behind the blast but Turkey has suffered a number of attacks attributed to Kurdish militants and so-called Islamic State. Hundreds of people
 have been killed.

The outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) , which launched an armed struggle against the Turkish 
government in 1984 to push for an independent Kurdish 
state, has been labelled as a terrorist organisation by 
Turkey and its allies in the West.

Fighting flared up again after a two-year-old ceasefire ended
 in July 2015.

In August last year, a police officer in Viransehir, a mainly Kurdish and Arab town, died in an explosion also said to 
have been triggered by remote control.

And in May last year, police in the town shot dead four men who officials suspected were members of the PKK.

The pro-government Yeni Safak newspaper said that they 
had been planning to bomb a government building.