UPDATE - Soldier martyred in eastern Turkey bomb attack
PKK terrorists detonate roadside bomb during army operation in Bingol, source says
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.
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