2 Dead in Explosion at Kurdish Election Rally

A Turkish minister says two people have died following two explosions at a Kurdish party election rally in southeast Turkey. Mehdi Eker, the agriculture minister, said Friday more than 100 people were injured in the explosions. It wasn't immediately clear how many of those were seriously hurt. The blasts occurred five minutes apart at the pro-Kurdish People Democratic Party's election rally in Diyarbakir, in Turkey's predominantly Kurdish southeast. Rally organizers first said a malfunctioning power distribution unit caused the explosions, but the country's energy minister said they were caused by an "external interference" with the power unit, without saying whether he believed a bomb was involved.