By Abdullah Celik, Gani Cihan Eser and Hasan Namli
UPDATES WITH DETAIL OF CLASH IN WHICH TWO OTHER SOLDIERS KILLED
BINGOL, Turkey (AA) – A roadside bomb in Bingol, eastern Turkey, killed a soldier Wednesday, a security source said.
The attack came in the same area — around the village of Ortacanak — where two members of the counter-terrorism village guard militia were killed in a PKK attack Tuesday.
The source, speaking on condition of anonymity due to restrictions on talking to the media, said the bomb was detonated during a counter-terrorism operation.
The same source said two soldiers were later killed and four injured — two of them seriously — in a clash with PKK terrorists on the Diyarbakir-Bingol highway at Kiralan, a village in north Diyarbakir province.
The wounded were taken to Diyarbakir Military Hospital, the source added.
A hunt for the perpetrators, backed by air support, in both attacks was launched.
The PKK — listed as a terrorist organization also by the U.S. and EU — resumed its decades-old armed campaign in July last year, since when more than 600 security personnel have been martyred and around 7,000 PKK terrorists killed.
