Ankara: Nine people were killed and at least 64 wounded in a car bomb attack at a police headquarters in the town of Cizre in south-east Turkey on Friday, hospital sources said.

Cizre is in Sirnak, a province that borders both Syria and Iraq and has a largely Kurdish population.

News channel NTV showed large plumes of smoke billowing from the site which it said was a police checkpoint.

State-run Anadolu Agency blamed the attack on the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) which has been involved in almost daily clashes in the region since last July, when a ceasefire between it and the government collapsed.