Turkish police targeted in two separate bomb attacks

Two police vehicles were targeted in separate attacks in southeastern and eastern Turkey on Tuesday.

One police officer was lightly injured when a bomb planted on a road exploded as the police vehicle he was in was passing by in Yüksekova in the southeastern province of Hakkari.

Another police vehicle was attacked in the eastern Ağrı province when unidentified assailants hurled a noise bomb at a police vehicle. No one was hurt in the attack.

Three militants killed in Tunceli

Meanwhile, three alleged members of the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party, or PKK, were killed in a clash with security forces near Burçak village in the eastern province of Tunceli.

Operations are continuing in the region, the Tunceli Governor's Office said in a statement.

The PKK is listed as a terrorist organization by Turkey, the United States and the European Union.


/Hurriyet Daily News/