Ankara: At least seven people including five policemen were killed in a roadside blast killed in Turkey’s southeast province of Bitlis on Tuesday, an official said.
A police vehicle appears to have been the target for the attack in the Guroymak town of Bitlis, while the civilians were traveling in a truck behind, said Governor Nurettin Yilmaz of Bitlis province.
The area has seen a spike in attacks by suspected Kurdish rebels seeking greaters autonomy, killing dozens of members of the country’s security force and at least 17 civilians since mid-July. The conflict has killed tens of thousands of people since 1984. Turkey’s state-run TRT television, citing local authorities, said the civilian casualties were a father and his 2-year-old daughter. Four other people were wounded in the explosion, Yilmaz said.
One soldier was wounded in a separate roadside bomb attack in the southeastern province of Mardin, local authorities said.
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