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Kurdish rebels kill two Turkish soldiers,
attack school bus in Turkey
6.6.2006
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DIYARBAKIR,
Kurdistan-Turkey, June 6, 2006 (AFP), -- Two Turkish
soldiers were killed and two others wounded Tuesday
in an ambush by separatist Kurdish rebels, while a
remote-controlled landmine targeted a school bus,
leaving two more soldiers injured, officials said.
Rebels from the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK)
opened fire on soldiers on patrol near Semdinli, in
southeastern Hakkari province, in an area close to
the border with Iraq, killing two of them.
Two others were wounded in the attack.
In Pulumur, Tunceli province, some 650 kilometers
(400 miles) northwest of Hakkari, rebels set off a
landmine by remote control as an armoured minibus
carrying the children of local soldiers was passing,
the officials said.
The children escaped the attack unscathed, but the
explosion badly damaged a military escort vehicle
following the minibus, wounding two soldiers, they
said.
Fighting between the army and PKK rebels has
markedly intensified this year, and Kurdish
militants have claimed responsibility for a series
of bomb attacks in urban centers.
In recent months, the army has massed troops in the
southeast to step up security operations and stop
the rebels from penetrating Turkish soil from bases
in northern Iraq, where they took refuge after
declaring a unilateral ceasefire in 1999. The truce
was called off in June 2004.
The Kurdish conflict has claimed more than 37,000
lives since 1984 when the PKK, blacklisted as a
terrorist group by Turkey, the European Union and
the United States, took up arms for Kurdish
self-rule in the southeast.
AFP
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