ISTANBUL—A truck carrying fireworks exploded in northwestern Turkey on Thursday, killing three military police officers and wounding 12 others.
The fireworks and explosives, which were from a factory where a blast last week killed seven people, were being transported to be destroyed in a controlled explosion in Sakarya, the Interior Ministry said in a statement. The material exploded as it was being taken off the truck at a quarry, and two of the dead were from the bomb disposal unit of the military police, the ministry said.
