Kurds kill soldier in southeast Turkey

At least one Turkish soldier has been killed and five policemen have been injured in separate attacks by members of a separatist Kurdish group in Turkey’s southeast.

Security sources said anonymously that militants from the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) detonated a roadside bomb by remote control as army troopers were attempting to defuse it on a highway outside the city of Hakkari, located 1,026 km east of the capital, Ankara, late on Sunday, killing one soldier.

Three soldiers were also injured in the attack.

Elsewhere, in the southeastern province of Siirt, five policemen were injured in a bomb explosion that struck their patrol car on a road leading to neighboring Sirnak Province.

Separately, two PKK militants turned themselves in to security forces in the Baskale district of Van Province.

Nine PKK terrorists had earlier been killed in the Samanli and Cadikan districts of Hakkari Province during clashes with Turkish military forces. Two soldiers sustained gunshot wounds in those clashes.

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