TUNCELI: 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 said that helicopter gun ships 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 south-eastern Turkey on Saturday. |