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Three Kurdish rebels killed, train bombed
in southeast Turkey
19.6.2006
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DIYARBAKIR,
Kurdistan-Turkey, June 18, 2006 (AFP) , -- Three
rebels from the separatist Kurdish group PKK were
killed Sunday in fighting with the Turkish army and
a freight train was bombed overnight by suspected
members of the group.
The militants were shot dead in the countryside in
Tunceli province, where an army operation against
the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) was
continuing, the local governor said in a statement
carried by Anatolia news agency.
Separately, officials said that a bomb, believed to
have been activated by remote control, went off late
Saturday on a railroad in the southeastern province
of Mus, derailing a passing freight train and
damaging eight of its wagons.
The authorities believe the blast was the work of
the PKK, blamed for similar attacks in the past, the
sources said.
Last month, a bomb damaged a freight train in the
same province, and in July last year five railway
security guards were killed when a bomb ripped
through a train in neighboring Bingol.
The PKK, blacklisted as a terrorist group by Turkey,
the European Union and the United States, has
stepped up its violent campaign this year.
The Kurdish conflict in Turkey has claimed more than
37,000 lives since 1984 when the PKK took up arms
for self-rule in the mainly Kurdish southeast.
AFP
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