Massive bomb explosion kills 4 Turkish soldiers in southeast
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Turkish soldiers walk under a Turkish national flag on February 26, 2016 during a curfew in Diyarbakir.
A massive bomb explosion has ripped through a military vehicle in Turkey’s Kurdish-dominated southeastern region, killing at least four soldiers and injuring nine others, security sources say.
The military said on Wednesday that the bomb was detonated as the vehicle was traveling in the town of Semdinli in the Hakkari Province near the Iraqi border.
Explosives had been laid in the road in advance of the soldiers' convoy.
The Turkish military has reportedly deployed troops backed by helicopters to the troubled region to launch an operation in the wake of the fatal attack.
Earlier on Wednesday, a Turkish soldier was killed when he came under militant fire in the mainly Kurdish town of Nusaybin, situated at the Syrian border. The volatile town has been under a round-the-clock curfew for more than two months as Turkish forces attempt to root out militants.
Turkish fighter jets also bombarded overnight areas in Hakkari Province and in northern Iraq, killing at least 10 people.
The Turkish military has launched a large-scale military campaign against PKK militants in its southern border region since last year. The government has imposed curfew in the areas that have been targeted in the army’s anti-PKK campaign.
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