Three soldiers wounded in mine explosion in southeast Turkey

Three soldiers of the Turkish security forces were wounded in a mine explosion in southeast Turkey on Saturday, the semi-official Anatolia news agency reported.

The land-mine planted by the members of the banned Kurdish Workers' Party (PKK) went off near Baskale town of the province of Hakkari as a vehicle carrying troops was passing, according to the report.

The injured were rushed to a nearby hospital for medical treatment, said the report.

On Friday, one Turkish soldier was killed and another wounded in an armed attack staged by PKK in Semdinli town of Hakkari province in southeastern Turkey, the semi-official Anatolia news agency reported.

Meanwhile, on early Friday, 15 Turkish soldiers and one child were injured after their military convoy was hit by a mine blast in a rural area in the province of Tunceli in eastern Turkey, local private NTV channel reported.

On late Thursday, the PKK staged a rocket attack on a military housing complex near the southern province of Osmaniye, wounding the wife of a lieutenant, who died later in hospital, Turkish authorities were quoted by Anatolia as saying on Friday.

The PKK took up arms in 1984 to create an ethnic homeland in southeastern Turkey and is listed as a terrorist organization by the Turkish government, the United States and the European Union.

Some 40,000 people have been killed in conflicts fuelled by the PKK's separatist campaign in Turkey.

Source:Xinhua