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1st LD: 5 soldiers killed in PKK attack in SE Turkey

Xinhua, August 10, 2016 Adjust font size:

Five Turkish soldiers were killed and eight others wounded early Wednesday in a bombing attack by suspected Kurdish Workers' Party (PKK) militants in the southeastern province of Sirnak, Dogan News Agency reported.

The militants detonated bombs when the military's armored vehicles were transiting the Uludere district of Sirnak, Dogan said.

The bombing came one day after the Turkish Air Force destroyed four PKK targets in rural areas of the eastern province of Tunceli late Tuesday.

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 2015.

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