CANKIRI, Turkey (Reuters) - A car bomb seriously wounded a Turkish provincial governor and killed three other people, including a young girl, in a central Turkish town on Friday, a local prosecutor said. It was not immediately clear who carried out the attack in the town of Cankiri, which lies 80 km northeast of Ankara and well beyond the normal confines of a separatist campaign by the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) guerrilla group. If the bomb was the work of the PKK, it would mark a new departure in its campaign following the capture of its leader Abdullah Ocalan by Turkish special services in Kenya last month. A prosecutor in Cankiri said the bomb, planted in a parked car, was detonated by remote control as Governor Ayhan Cevik drove past on his way to work. The governor`s bodyguard, a 14-year-old girl and a passer-by were killed outright. The governor`s driver was severely injured, along with nine others. He had been earlier been reported killed. Cevik has received death

threats from a Maoist guerrilla group, the Turkish Workers and Peasants Liberation Army (TIKKO), since serving in a previous posting as governor of the northern province of Tokat, where the group is active, Anatolian said. The leftist rebels have mounted a number of bomb attacks, ambushed security forces and kidnapped state officials since the group was formed in the mid-1970s, though their strength is thought to have dropped in recent years. President Demirel condemned the attack but stopped short of specifically blaming the PKK. Ocalan is being held in a prison island near Istanbul. He faces trial on treason charges and a possible death sentence. Police sources said they believed the PKK was disintegrating into two factions and they feared desperate last resort attacks in cities outside the southeast. The group said it planned to step up its armed campaign for Kurdish self-rule in Turkey and Kurdish-held northern Iraq.