Two Turkish police officers have been killed and 35 other people wounded in a car bomb attack that targeted a traffic police station in southeastern Turkey.
The bombing occurred in the Nusaybin district of the southeastern province of Mardin on Friday. Two civilians are among the wounded.
Following the bombing, militants opened fire at the police station, including with rocket-propelled grenade launchers.
The car bomb explosion caused a fire that spread to nearby police lodgings.
Local Turkish media have blamed the attack on Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) militants.
Violence has increased in Turkey, where the government has recently been engaged in an intensified crackdown on the country’s Kurdish population in the southeast. Turkey has also been carrying out airstrikes against Kurdish positions in Iraq, and Turkish artillery fire has also been hitting Kurds inside Syria.
In an operation against the PKK militants in the country’s southeastern provinces of Diyarbakir and Mardin on Thrusday, four Turkish soldiers were killed and one other injured.
Earlier in the day, three soldiers lost their lives and eight PKK terrorists were killed during a firefight in the Dargecit district of Mardin Province.
Also on Thursday, two PKK militants launched a gun and grenade attack on a police station in a suburb of the Turkish city of Istanbul.
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