ANKARA: A Somali man died of a gunshot wound and four people, among them two police officers, were injured during a riot at a Turkish centre for illegal immigrants, Anatolia news agency reported on Thursday.

The migrants at the centre in Kirklareli, in northwestern Turkey, began rioting overnight, attacking and stealing the guns of two police officers trying to quell the unrest, the province's deputy governor Zeki Kocberber was quoted by the agency as saying.

The officers locked the rioters in their ward and called in police and paramilitary troop reinforcements, he added.

The victim broke down the door and rushed out firing his gun, Kocberber said, adding that security forces fired a warning shot when he refused orders to stop and tried to escape.—AFP