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The Grand Turk
PKK suspected in deadly blast
2011-10-19
ANKARA: A land mine explosion killed five police officers and three civilians in Turkey on Tuesday, in an attack that security sources blamed on Kurdish terrorists rebels.

The mine, planted on a rural road in a village near the Guroymak district of Bitlis province in the mainly Kurdish southeast, was detonated by remote control as a police car was passing by, the Anatolia news agency quoted governor Nurettin Yilmaz as saying.

The death toll rose to eight when one of the four who were injured died at a hospital, the governor told the agency. A two-year-old girl was among the dead. The remaining three who were injured were at the intensive care unit, said the governor.

Security forces combed the area in search of the terrorists assailants, believed to be members of the outlawed Kurdistan WorkersÂ’ Party (PKK). The terrorists rebels have lately intensified their attacks in a war for autonomy in the countryÂ’s Kurdish-dominated southeast, killing dozens of members of the countryÂ’s security force and at least 17 civilians since mid-July.

Land mine attacks by suspected PKK terrorists guerrillas have become common in TurkeyÂ’s eastern and southeastern provinces.
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