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Top PKK leader killed in northern Syria bomb attack

Xinhua, July 10, 2016 Adjust font size:

Top Kurdish Workers' Party (PKK) commander Fehman Huseyin was killed in an attack in northern Syria, Turkish State-run Anadolu Agency reported Saturday.

Fehman Huseyin was killed in Friday night by a bombing attack at the car he took, military source told Anadolu, adding that 8 people were killed in the car.

Fahman Husains, born in 1969, was among the top commanders of the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK). Since 2004 he was among the three-men PKK Executive Committee.

Some Turkish security analysts have alleged that Erdal may be the leader of the Kurdistan Freedom Falcons (TAK), a youth group of PKK which have conducted several bombing attacks to Turkish soldiers and police in Turkish Capital Ankara and the biggest city Istanbul this year.

Meanwhile, the death toll of the PKK bombing attack to Turkish gendarmerie station rose to 3 until Saturday evening.

2 Turkish soldiers and 1 civilian were killed in a PKK car bomb attack at a gendarmerie station in southeastern Turkey's Mardin province Saturday, Mardin Governor's Office said in a statement.

Turkish General Staff stated that 12 soldiers were injured in the attack.

Over 500 members of Turkish security forces and thousands of PKK members have been killed in confrontations inside Turkey and in northern Iraq since last July.

More than 40,000 people have lost their lives in clashes with the PKK since 1984, when the group first started anti-government attacks.

The PKK is listed as a terrorist organization by the United States, the European Union and Turkey. Endit