Bomb blast at Turkey hospital part of coordinated attacks, 7 dead

Six people were killed and 54 others wounded in two separate blast in southeastern Turkey on Wednesday, media reports said. Meanwhile, five soldiers were killed and eight others were wounded in the Uludere district of the southeastern province of Şırnak when explosives laid on a road were detonated by PKK militants during the passage of an armored military vehicle early on August 10.

And a vehicle bomb blast in the city of Diyarbakir killed four civilians and injured at least 13 people, the source said.

Both bomb attacks had been aimed at passing police vehicles, the Dogan news agency said.

Members of the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) opened fire on the soldiers in the countryside outside the town of Kulp in Diyarbakir province, they said. Many had hoped that the talks would lead to an eventual solution to the “Kurdish question” that has existed since Turkey’s inception as a republic but tensions escalated over Syria where Kurdish fighters have been battling the Islamic State group that has also launched attacks in Turkey.

The attacks came hours after an earlier attack, also blamed on the PKK, killed four soldiers and injured nine others near the border with Iraq.

The PKK has kept up attacks after the July 15 failed coup during which a rogue military faction tried to oust President Recep Tayyip Erdogan from power.

Turkey’s southeast has seen the worst violence in two decades since the PKK abandoned a 2-1/2-year ceasefire last year. Rights groups have said about 400 civilians have also died.

Since then, more than 600 Turkish security forces and thousands of PKK militants have been killed, according to Turkey’s Anadolu Agency.

Two PKK bomb attacks kill seven in Turkey was posted in World of TheNews International – https://www.thenews.com.pk on August 10, 2016 and was last updated on August 10, 2016.