Five security personnel killed in PKK attacks in Turkey
Xinhua, July 28, 2016 Adjust font size:
Five security personnel were killed and 11 others wounded in two separate attacks by the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) militants in Turkey late Wednesday, local media reported Thursday.
Three soldiers were killed when PKK militants detonated roadside explosives by remote control during the passage of an armored military vehicle in a rural part of southeastern province of Siirt. A soldier was wounded in the attack, Dogan News Agency said.
The other attack, a car bombing, occurred at a police control station seven km from the central province of Hakkari. Two police officers were killed and 10 other officers and a civilian wounded in the bombing and subsequent firefight.
Over 40,000 people have died in clashes with the PKK since 1984, when the group first started its anti-government attacks.
More than 500 members from the Turkish security forces and thousands of PKK members have been killed in Turkey and northern Iraq since July 2015.
The PKK is recognized as a terrorist organization by the United States, the European Union and Turkey. Endit