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10 wounded in PKK attack in SE Turkey

Xinhua, January 22, 2016 Adjust font size:

A total of 10 people were wounded in a rocket attack staged by militants of the outlawed Kurdish Workers' Party (PKK) in southeastern Turkey on Thursday, private Dogan news agency reported.

A group of PKK rebels attacked a police service bus with rockets and bombs in Nusaybin town of Mardin province on Thursday evening, leaving nine policemen and one civilain wounded, according to the report.

The wounded were taken to Nusaybin State Hospital for medical treatment, said the report.

The Turkish police launched an operation to capture the PKK rebels who escaped after the attack, added 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 leaving 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. Endit