Istanbul bomb attack on police bus kills 11

A car bomb attack targeting a police bus has killed seven officers and four civilians in central Istanbul.

The explosives were remotely detonated as the vehicle passed through the busy Vezneciler district at the morning rush hour, officials said.

No group has said it carried out the attack, but Kurdish militants have recently targeted security services.

President Recep Tayyip Erdogan says Turkey will "fight the terrorists to the end".

The explosion happened near the city's historic Beyazit Square neighbourhood, a major tourist attraction, and an Istanbul university building.

About 36 other people were injured, Istanbul's governor, Vasip Sahin, said.

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Image captionThe blast happened at the morning rush hour in central Istanbul

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Image captionThe explosion also damaged nearby buildings

Visiting some of the wounded in hospital, Mr Erdogan said: "These (attacks) are being carried out against people whose duty it is to ensure the security of our people.

"These cannot be pardoned or forgiven. We shall continue our fight against terrorists tirelessly until the end."

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Police reshuffle in Kerala, Rishiraj Singh becomes Excise Commissioner

Kerala government on Monday effected yet another reshuffle in the police force, appointing Director General of Prisons Rishiraj Singh as Excise Commissioner in place of X Anil, who has been transfered.

Additional Director General of Police Anilkant has been appointed as ADGP (prisons), an official release said on Monday.

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Mathura Cult Chief Ram Vriksh Yadav Killed In Clashes, Say Police

    The members of the cult in Mathura had set off has cylinder explosions when they clashed with the police.

MATHURA: Ram Vriksh Yadav, leader of the cult that clashed with policemen in Mathura on Thursday, was among those killed in the violence, the police have said.Twenty-four people, including two policemen, had diedin the clashes.

Yadav was the key accused of leading the violence andran a camp backed by a private army divided into unitswhich had taken over Mathura's Jawahar Bagh. He had eight cases against him including murder and land-grabbing.

More than 3,000 people of the cult, which called itself Swadhin Bharat Vidhik Satyagrah, hadambushed nearly a thousand policemen with swords, guns and grenades after police launched a drive to evict them.

They also lit hundreds of cooking gas cylinders leading to a huge explosion and causing most of the deaths. Yadav appeared to be among those killed in the fire and his body had been lying in the mortuary for two days, police said.

Two police officers were killed in Uttar Pradesh's Mathura in clashes between police and members of a sect.

The identity of several of those killed, including Yadav, could not be confirmed till Saturday as many of them were charred and no one had turned up to claim them.

According to sources, Yadav hailed from the Ghazipur district of Uttar Pradesh. He formed an offshoot of the Jai Gurudev sect after the death of its leader in 2012 and a fight over succession.

Claiming to be political and social revolutionaries, his group said they were fighting for the abolition of elections and cheaper fuel for everyone.

In March 2014, his group was allowed to camp at Jawahar Bagh for two days after being denied permission to take a protest march to Delhi - an encroachment started which ended on Thursday.

Government sources had told NDTV that they had started action against the encroachment in the park a month ago, when the last appeal by Yadav was rejected by a court.

Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav's government has faced sharp criticism for the operation. He later said that he did not "anticipate they (members of the sect who attacked cops) would be so well armed".

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