Blast rocks governor's office in Adana, five wounded

A firefighter tries to extinguish burning vehicles after an explosion outside the governor's...
A firefighter tries to extinguish burning vehicles after an explosion outside the governor's office in the southern city of Adana, Turkey. Photo: Reuters

An explosion has shaken the governor's office building in the southern Turkish city of Adana,  wounding five people, one of them seriously, television channel CNN Turk reported.

Turkish EU Affairs Minister Omer Celik described the explosion on Twitter as a "vile attack", but there was no immediate statement from authorities on the cause of the blast.

Kurdish, Islamist and leftist militants have all carried out bomb attacks in Turkey in recent years.

Video footage showed a vehicle ablaze in the car park outside the office and thick black smoke rising into the sky in the city, around 40km from Turkey's eastern Mediterranean coast.

"Damned terror continues to target our people. We will fight with this terror to the end in the name of humanity," Celik wrote on Twitter, saying he had spoken to the Adana governor.

Ambulances were sent to the scene and the fire brigade was trying to extinguish the blaze, media reports said. 

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