Eleven Turkish soldiers were killed and dozens more injured on Wednesday in two attacks blamed on the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK), local security sources have said.
In the deadliest attack to hit Turkey on Wednesday, five soldiers were killed and eight others wounded in the Uludere district of the southeastern province. Sources told AFP that a road bomb detonated when an army vehicle drove past.
In a separate incident, four soldiers were killed and nine others wounded when the PKK attacked a military vehicle in the Beytussebap district of the southeastern province of Sırnak, the army said.
In the early hours of Wednesday, two soldiers were also killed and two others were wounded in a PKK attack in the southeastern province of Diyarbakir, the Dogan news agency said.
The bombings, in the restive southeast of the country, were blamed on the PKK with which has been Turkish military has renewed fighting since the collapse of a two-year ceasefire in July last year.
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