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Landmines kill two in southeast Turkey
30.7.2006
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DIYARBAKIR,
Kurdistan-Turkey, July 30, 2006 (AFP) , -- Two
people, including a teenager, were killed and three
others injured in the restive southeast of Turkey in
two landmine explosions blamed on armed Kurdish
rebels, security sources said Sunday.
One of the explosions hit a group of children
collecting firewood near Genc, Bingol on Sunday, the
sources said.
A 14-year-old teenager was killed on the spot, while
three companions, aged 15 and 16, were injured.
In the neighbouring province of Diyarbakir, a
government-paid militia member was killed in a
roadside explosion late Saturday as a group of
village guards -- Kurdish men recruited to support
the army in the fight against the rebels -- were
travelling to their watch posts.
A first explosion did not cause any casualties or
damage to the vehicle, but as the guards left the
car to inspect the blast site, a second landmine
went off, killing a 35-year-old man, the sources
said.
Attacks using remote-controlled landmines are a
hallmark of the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK),
which has stepped up violence in the mainly Kurdish
region since it called off a unilateral truce in
June 2004.
In the face of the escalating fighting, the Turkish
army has intensified its operations against PKK
rebels who are based in the mountains of
neighbouring northern Iraq.
Ankara says the PKK uses northern Iraq as a
springboard for attacks inside Turkey and has
threatened a cross-border operation if Washington
and Bagdad fail to crack down on the organisation
regarded as a terrorist group by Turkey, the
European Union and the United States.
More than 37,000 people have been killed since 1984,
when the PKK took up arms for self-rule in the
mainly Kurdish southeast of the country.
AFP
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