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Four policemen wounded in Kurdish rebel attack in
Turkey
9.6.2006
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DIYARBAKIR,
Kurdistan-Turkey, June 9, 2006 (AFP) , -- Four
police officers were wounded when separatist Kurdish
rebels opened fire on the residence of a local
government official in southeast Turkey, local
security sources said Friday.
The attack took place late Thursday in the town of
Kozluk in Batman province.
The policemen, who were on duty around the residence
of the town's governor, sustained injuries to their
hands and feet. None of them was in a
life-threatening condition, the sources said.
Governor Mustafa Balli was out of town at the time
of the attack for which officials blamed the
outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK).
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.
More than 37,000 people have been killed since 1984
when the PKK, blacklisted as a terrorist group by
Turkey, the European Union and the United States,
took up arms for self-rule in the mainly Kurdish
southeast.
AFP
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