Suspected PKK blast kills two in southern Turkey

An explosion outside the governor's office in the southern Turkish city of Adana killed two people and injured over 30 others on Thursday.

The attack comes just weeks after the United States warned of attacks by "extremist groups" in the city.

Some Turkish officials, including Labour Minister Mehmet Muezzinoglu, have indicated that the Kurdish seperatist PKK group may have been behind the attack.

"It looks like they [the PKK] were probably behind it this morning yet again, as this looks like their one of their actions," he told CNN Turk.

There were no immediate claims of respobsibility for the bombing.

Video footage seen by Reuters after the blast shows a vehicle ablaze outside the government building, with thick plumes of smoke rising from the wreckage. Parts of the building, to an extent of around six foot high, were damaged, with some windows blown out.

The two deaths from the attack were reported by Turkey's state-run Anadolu agency, who said that the blast occurred shortly after 8am.

In Adana at the time of the blast was Energy Minister Berat Albayrak, son-in-law of President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, who said that 33 people had been wounded.

Three weeks prior to Thursday's blast, the US Consulate General in Adana warned that "extremist groups continue aggressive efforts to attack US citizens and other foreigners in Adana".

US State Department guidance has also previously warned its country's citizens not to travel around southeastern Turkey.

Since July 2015, when a ceasfire between the PKK and Turkey's government collapsed, dozens of attacks by PKK militants have targeted security forces, government buildings and civilians.

One Turkish soldier was killed and two others wounded on Thursday when an improvised explosive device allegedly planted by PKK operatives in Sinark, near the Syrian and Iraqi borders, was detonated.

The Islamic State group have also stepped up their attacks on Tukrey in recent times. The militant group is thought to have been behind at least half a dozen suicide blasts in the Turkey over the past year.