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8 dead in Turkey rebel attacks

A wave of PKK attacks in southeast Turkey have killed at least 8 people, including five children aged between two and five.

 Scenes of crime officers search the area after an explosion in Ankara, Turkey early 14 March 2016. An explosion happened near Bus Station on 13 March, killed 34 people and 125 people injured.
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By Nilgün Kılıç



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A wave of Kurdish rebel attacks targeting police and soldiers in Turkey's mainly Kurdish southeast have killed at 8 people, as country still deals with the aftermath of a failed military coup attempt that threatened the government.

Officials said rebels of the Kurdistan Workers' Party, or PKK, launched simultaneous bomb attacks targeting police vehicles in the city of Diyarbakir and the town of Kiziltepe, killing eight people, while four soldiers were killed in a separate attack near the border with Iraq hours earlier.

 

 


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