2 Turkish soldiers killed in PKK attack in SE Turkey

Two members of the Turkish security forces were killed and three others wounded in an attack staged by militants of the outlawed Kurdish Workers' Party (PKK) in southeastern Turkey on Monday, a military statement said.

A group of PKK rebels attacked Turkish security forces in Sur town of Diyarbakir province on Monday morning, injuring three Turkish soldiers and two policemen, the Turkish Armed Forces said in the statement.

Two soldiers died later in hospital and the two policemen are in serious condition, it added.

Since early December last year, more than 240 Turkish security members and 649 PKK militants have been killed in clashes between the two sides.

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 that killed 34 pro-Kurdish and left-wing activists.

Turkey's southeast has seen the worst violence in two decades since a two-and-a-half-year cease-fire between the government and the PKK collapsed in July of last year, reviving a conflict that has killed 40,000 people since 1984.

The PKK is listed as a terrorist group by Turkey, the U.S. and the European Union. Endit