ISTANBUL (AP) May 30, 2016 – Kurdish rebels on Monday detonated a bomb in southeast Turkey as a police armored vehicle was passing by, killing at least four people, the state-run news agency reported.
The attack on a street in the mainly-Kurdish town of Silopi also injured 19 other people, five of them police officers, the Anadolu Agency said. Some of the injured were in serious condition.
Anadolu said the attack was carried out with an improvised explosive device hidden inside a manhole. The police vehicle was patrolling the streets.
An estimated 500 Turkish security personnel have been killed in attacks or in conflict with the Kurdish rebels, according to the military, which claims to have killed 4,900 PKK militants in operations in Turkey and northern Iraq, where the group has a major bastion.
Limited access to conflict areas in the southeast has made it difficult to verify casualty figures.