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Suspected Kurdish rebel attacks leave
three dead, eight injured in Turkey
7.8.2006
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DIYARBAKIR,
Kurdistan-Turkey, Aug 6, (AFP) ,-- Three soldiers
were killed and eight other people injured in Turkey
on Sunday in attacks by suspected rebels from the
separatist Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK), officials
said.
The soldiers were killed when PKK members ambushed a
military vehicle, which overturned after the driver
was wounded and lost control, in a rural area in the
northeastern province of Gumushane, the regional
governor Veysel Dalmaz told the Anatolia news
agency.
Four others were injured in the incident, he said.
Dalmaz said that initial information that four
soldiers were killed and three wounded turned out to
be incorrect.
A local security official contacted by AFP said the
PKK, blacklisted as a terrorist group by Ankara and
much of the international community, was behind the
attack.
It was not immediately clear how many of the
soldiers were killed by gunfire or as a result of
the vehicle overturning, he added.
Gumushane is not a region where the PKK is usually
active, but following several attacks there last
year officials said the group was seeking to
establish itself in the area.
Earlier Sunday, a landmine exploded while a freight
train was passing in the mainly Kurdish southeast,
injuring four train security guards.
The landmine was planted on rail track that links
the provinces of Bingol and Elazig and was activated
by remote control.
Officials said they believe the blast was the work
of the PKK, blamed for similar train attacks in the
past.
Last year, five railway security guards were killed
when a bomb ripped through a train, also in Bingol.
At least 94 PKK militants and 62 members of the
security forces have been killed in mounting unrest
this year, according to an AFP count.
Kurdish militants have also claimed responsibility
for 13 bomb blasts in urban centers across the
country, in which nine people were killed and more
than 150 others injured.
The Kurdish conflict in Turkey has claimed more than
37,000 lives since 1984 when the PKK took up arms
for Kurdish self-rule in the southeast.
AFP
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