Five police officers were injured today in an explosion as they investigated a suspicious package at a tourist resort in western Turkey, state-run Anatolian news agency reported.
The blast occurred in the Aegean resort town of Kusadasi next to a statue of modern Turkey's founder Mustafa Kemal Ataturk, the agency said.
It had earlier said one officer had been killed, but it subsequently quoted the local governor as saying nobody had died and that one policeman had lost an arm in the blast. The five officers were taken to hospital.
Police were trying to set up a security cordon after a report of a suspicious package in front of the statue when the explosion happened.
Local police set up control points at the road exits from Kusadasi following the incident.
