ADDS VILLAGE GUARDS WOUNDED; CHANGES LEDE, HEADLINE
By Yilmaz Kazandioglu, Ekrem Payan
HAKKARI/SIRNAK, Turkey (AA) – Eleven security personnel in southeastern Turkey were injured Sunday in three separate PKK terror attacks, according to military sources.
One Turkish soldier was martyred during a security operation against the PKK terrorist group in a rural area of southeastern Bingol province, said a source, who asked not to be named due to restrictions on speaking to the media.
Village guards in a rural area of the Hakkari province sweeping for mines and bombs came under heavy gunfire from an undetermined number of PKK terrorists, the source said.
Thee guards were injured in the attack, one critically, said the source. Also, six military personnel were wounded in the same incident, the source added.
Six soldiers were injured when members of the terror group taking shelter in northern Iraq attacked using mortar shells a Turkish military base near the border region.
The source said wounded personnel were taken to Hakkari State Hospital and Turkish Air Forces began an operation in the region.
In the third incident, two village guards were wounded during an operation against the PKK in Turkey’s southeastern province of Sirnak, according to a military source.
Two guards were wounded in clashes in the rural area of Anilmis Village in the Cudi Mountain region, said the source, who asked not to be named due to restrictions on speaking to the media.
The wounded were taken to Sirnak State Hospital, and the air-backed operation in the region is still ongoing, the source added.
More than 1,200 people, including security personnel and civilians, have lost their lives since the PKK resumed its armed terrorist campaign in July 2015.