Four police officers were injured when a bomb exploded late Sunday in southeastern Turkey, the semi-official Anatolia news agency reported on Monday.

The bomb was planted by members of the outlawed Kurdish Workers' Party (PKK) in a garbage can in Yuksekova town in Hakkari province, leaving one captain and three police officers wounded.

The injured policemen were rushed to a hospital in neighboring Van province by helicopter for medical treatment after the blast, said the report. PKK has intensified landmine and remote-controlled bombing attacks in Turkey over the past few months. At least 200 Turkish soldiers have been reportedly killed in clashes with PKK members this year.

More than 37,000 people have been killed since the rebel group took up arms against the government for an independent Kurdish state in southeastern Turkey in 1984.

Source: Xinhua