Four civilians killed in PKK attack in Turkey’s southeast
HAKKARİ/BİTLİS
PKK militants stopped two lorries and two automobiles of a convoy carrying engineering vehicles in Hakkari’s Yüksekova district.
The militants killed two civilians and wounded three others in the convoy and also set a vehicle on fire, fleeing after the attack.
Three others were taken to a hospital, according to initial reports. Two wounded civilians succumbed to their injuries while receiving treatment in the hospital, bringing the death toll in the attack to four.
Moreover, a wide-range operation was launched after three PKK militants attempted to infiltrate a police station in Hakkari.
One of the three PKK militants was “neutralized” and an operation is ongoing to apprehend the other two, according to a statement by the Hakkari Governor’s Office.
In a separate attack, PKK militants detonated a hand-made explosive while a truck was passing and one civilian was wounded as a result in the eastern province of Tunceli on July 8.
The attack occurred on the fifth kilometer of the Pülümür-Erzincan highway at 7:00 p.m. One man was wounded and taken to hospital for treatment, as a number of security forces and ambulances were dispatched to the scene following the attack.
Elsewhere, two Turkish soldiers were killed and another soldier was wounded when PKK militants detonated a roadside bomb laid in the eastern province of Bitlis.
Authorities have launched a wide-scale operation in the region, while the treatment of the wounded soldier is ongoing in Tatvan State Hospital.
Meanwhile, four PKK militants were killed in air operations on July 9 in the eastern province of Ağrı. The militants were killed in two separate air raids conducted by F-16 fighter jets and military helicopters in the western part of Mount Tendürek.
Elsewhere, five PKK militants reportedly surrendered to security forces near a Turkey-Iraq border gate in the Silopi district of the southeastern province of Şırnak.