Two killed in PKK bomb attack in Turkey

Turkey: Two Turkish security force members have been killed and eight others wounded after Kurdish rebels detonated a roadside bomb in southeast Turkey on Monday.

According to a report by Turkey's state run Anadolu Agency, the bomb blast attack was targeted at soldiers and village guards traveling on a highway in Mardin province, near the Syrian border.

Security sources said suspected Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) militants detonated an explosive device that had been planted on the road side.

No group has claimed responsibility for the attack that was carried out on a busy route between the towns of Derik and Kiziltepe.

Fighting between the Kurdistan Workers' Party, (PKK) and Turkey's security forces resumed in 2015 after a flimsy peace process collapsed which has left more than 600 Turkish security personnel and thousands of PKK militants dead, according to Anadolu.


The PKK is considered a terror organisation by Turkey and its allies since they took up arms in 1984 and leaving tens of thousands of people dead since then.