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3 police killed, 4 wounded by PKK attack in SE Turkey

Xinhua, January 18, 2016 Adjust font size:

Three police officers were killed and four others wounded on Monday in a mine explosion in southeastern Turkey, private Dogan news agency reported.

Militants of the outlawed Kurdish Workers' party (PKK) detonated an anti-tank mine as an armored police vehicle was passing in Turkey's Sirnak province, according to the report.

Seven police officers wounded and three of them died later in the hospital, said the report.

The PKK negotiated a cease-fire with the government in 2013, but the truce fell apart in the wake of a suicide bomb attack in the border town of Suruc in Sanliurfa Province last July. The attack left 34 pro-Kurdish and left-wing activists dead.

The PKK, which has claimed the lives of over 40,000 people, is listed as a terrorist group by Turkey, the United States and the European Union. Enditem