Five Turkish police officers were killed in two bomb attacks by Kurdish militants in the country’s southeast overnight, Turkish security sources say.
Three officers were killed and a fourth was seriously injured in an attack on a police vehicle travelling in the town of Nusaybin, near the Syrian border, a senior security official tells AFP.
A further two officers were killed and two were injured in a similar attack in the remote southeastern Hakkari province, on the border with Iraq, the official, who blamed the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK), says.
Dozens of soldiers and police have been killed in PKK attacks since a two-year ceasefire between the government and rebels broke down in July, when the army launched a major “anti-terror” operation against PKK strongholds in northern Iraq and southeast Turkey.
— AFP
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