A car stuffed with explosives detonated outside a military barracks in Istanbul’s Sancaktepe district, injuring eight people, according to the governor of Istanbul Province. Later on Thursday, a large explosion occurred outside the Kurdish city of Diyarbakır. The official, Vasip Sahin, said that five military personnel and three civilians have been taken to a hospital, but none have suffered serious injuries. According to Sahin, the explosive-packed car was parked 200 yards outside the entrance to the military facility, as the perpetrators of the attack lay in wait. A military transport emerged out of the gates, and is it drew closer, the attackers remotely set off the car bomb. Sahin said that the bombers mistimed the detonation, and the van was still 30 meters away, meaning that worse casualties were avoided. Nonetheless, the vehicle's window panes were blown out, grazing those inside.