Turkish security forces kill six Kurdish PKK militants

At least six Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) militants have been killed during fierce clashes with Turkish security forces in the country’s northern province of Ordu.

Provincial Governor Irfan Balkanlioglu said the terrorists were spotted and shot dead during a Friday counter-terrorism operation in the Mesudiye district of the province, situated approximately 435 kilometers east of the capital Ankara.

Balkanlioglu added that an M16 and five AK-47 assault rifles besides several hand grenades and documents were seized from the slain Kurdish militants.

Also on Friday, a paramilitary policeman was killed and two others sustained injuries when PKK militants detonated by a remote-controlled bomb they had planted earlier on the side of a road linking the southeastern Turkish town of Sirnak to Cizre.

Ambulances rushed to the scene following the explosion, and transferred the wounded soldiers to Sirnak State Hospital.

The developments came a day after three paramilitary policemen were killed and two others injured in a PKK militant attack in the Yuksekova district of the southeastern province of Hakkari.

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