One police officer was killed and four people including two policemen wounded when unidentified assailants hurled hand grenade on a police vehicle in southeastern Turkey on Wednesday, the semi-official Anatolia news agency reported.
Police officer Huseyin Ozdemir died when the assailants hurled hand grenade on a patrolling police vehicle in Balikcilarbasi district in province of Diyarbakir, according to the report.
The report added taht the injured were taken to Diyarbakir State Hospital for medical treatment.
The PKK has increased its attacks on government troops in southeastern Turkey, which led to rising Turkish demands for an incursion into northern Iraq to crush the rebels based there.
The group, listed as a terrorist organization by Turkey, the United States and the European Union, launched an armed campaign for an ethnic homeland in the mainly Kurdish southeastern Turkey in 1984, sparking decades of strife that has claimed more than 30,000 lives.
Source: Xinhua
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