Six killed, Many injured, by roadside bombs in southeast Turkey

Roadside bombs killed at least six people in two separate attacks on security forces in Turkey’s largely Kurdish southeast on Monday, security sources said, adding to the violence that has flared across the region in the last 24 hours.

One bomb hit a passing police vehicle in the town of Silopi in Sirnak province near the border with Iraq, the sources said, hours after Turkish warplanes struck camps belonging to the outlawed Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) in northern Iraq.

Four civilians were killed and 19 other people were injured, including five security force members, in that attack, the sources said. Turkey’s Dogan News Agency said the bomb had been placed inside a manhole and was detonated as a police vehicle passed.

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Earlier, near the eastern city of Van, PKK fighters detonated a roadside bomb by remote control targeting a passing armored vehicle. Two police officers were killed and a third was wounded, the sources said.

 

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