Three people, including police, were killed and 22 others wounded when a car bomb attack blamed on Kurdish militants struck a police vehicle in the southeastern city of Diyarbakir, reports said.

Three people, including police, were killed and 22 others wounded when a car bomb attack blamed on Kurdish militants struck a police vehicle in the southeastern city of Diyarbakir, reports said.

The vehicle was carrying detainees accused of "terror" crimes when the car bomb exploded in the centre of Diyarbakir, the state-run-Anatolia news agency reported, blaming the outlawed Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) for the attack.