Turkish police kill suspected militant

Turkish police have shot dead a man suspected of involvement in the assassination of a provincial police chief and five officers last January.

The man Hasan Sariagac was said to be a member of the extremist Turkish Hizbullah.

He was killed during a police raid on his house in the predominantly Kurdish south-east city of Diyarbakir.

Officials say that security forces found a rifle, a gun and a hand grenade when they searched the house after the shootout. The Turkish Hezbollah, which is not linked to the Lebanese group of the same name, advocates replacing Turkey's secular government with an Islamic one.

From the newsroom of the BBC World Service