Dozens were wounded after a car bomb went off in Diyarbakir, a city in Turkey’s east, near police station where arrested pro-Kurdish lawmakers were held, The Guardian reported.

The attack followed the overnight arrests of 11 lawmakers from the Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP), the member of which are mainly the Kurds living in the region, as well as leftists and progressives throughout Turkey.

It was reported about collisions which began after explosion.