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2 killed in PKK attacks in SE Turkey

Xinhua, September 4, 2015 Adjust font size:

A police officer and a driver were killed in two attacks by militants of the banned Kurdish Workers' Party (PKK) in the southeastern Turkey, private Dogan news agency reported Friday.

A group of PKK militants on Friday attacked a police center in Tunceli province, killing a police officer and wounding a driver and a young girl in the clashes, said the report.

Meanwhile, another group of PKK militants attacked a car in the Cizre town of Sirnak province with automatic weapons, leaving the driver dead and a police officer and a child injured, said the report.

Tensions escalated in both eastern and southeastern Turkey amid the Turkish military's ongoing cross-border bombing campaigns against PKK hideouts in northern Iraq.

The campaigns were followed by several PKK attacks against Turkish security forces inside Turkey, in which over 60 soldiers and police officers were killed.

The PKK, listed as a terrorist organization by Turkey, the United States and the European Union, took up arms in 1984 in an attempt to create an ethnic homeland in southeastern Turkey.

More than 40,000 people have since been killed in conflicts involving the group. Endit