UPDATE - Soldier martyred in eastern Turkey bomb attack

By Abdullah Celik, Gani Cihan Eser and Hasan Namli

UPDATES WITH DETAIL OF CLASH IN WHICH TWO OTHER SOLDIERS KILLED

BINGOL, Turkey (AA) - A roadside bomb in Bingol, eastern Turkey, killed a soldier Wednesday, a security source said.

The attack came in the same area -- around the village of Ortacanak -- where two members of the counter-terrorism village guard militia were killed in a PKK attack Tuesday.

The source, speaking on condition of anonymity due to restrictions on talking to the media, said the bomb was detonated during a counter-terrorism operation.

The same source said two soldiers were later killed and four injured -- two of them seriously -- in a clash with PKK terrorists on the Diyarbakir-Bingol highway at Kiralan, a village in north Diyarbakir province.

The wounded were taken to Diyarbakir Military Hospital, the source added.

A hunt for the perpetrators, backed by air support, in both attacks was launched.

The PKK -- listed as a terrorist organization also by the U.S. and EU -- resumed its decades-old armed campaign in July last year, since when more than 600 security personnel have been martyred and around 7,000 PKK terrorists killed.