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Two Turkish army officers killed in PKK
ambush
11.6.2006
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TUNCELI,
Kurdistan-Turkey, June 11 (Reuters) - Two Turkish
army officers were killed on Sunday in an ambush by
Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) guerrillas in eastern
Turkey, a provincial governor said in a statement.
Five army officers and two civilians were also
wounded in the ambush on an army convoy in Tunceli
province, the statement said.
Army sources told Reuters that helicopter gunships
pounded the area where the guerrillas attacked the
convoy and clashes between the troops and the
guerrillas were continuing.
Two guerrillas, one of them a senior PKK field
commander, were killed in a clash with Turkish
troops in souteastern Turkey on Saturday.
The last two years have seen an upsurge in PKK
attacks which had subsided after the 1999 capture of
the group's leader, Abdullah Ocalan. He is now held
in an island prison south of Istanbul.
Ankara blames the PKK for the deaths of more than
30,000 people since the group launched its armed
campaign for a separate Kurdish homeland in
southeastern Turkey in 1984.
Reuters
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