Roadside bomb kills 12 police officers in Turkey, state media says
A roadside bomb explosion killed 12 police officers in eastern Turkey after Turkish jets carried out airstrikes against Kurdish rebels and their camps in northern Iraq, state media reported Tuesday.
Kurdish rebels were suspected of detonating a bomb in the eastern province of Igdir as a police vehicle escorting a group of customs officials to a border gate was passing, the Anadolu Agency reported. A number of other officers were injured in the attack in the province bordering Armenia, the agency said.
The attack comes amid a sharp escalation of violence between Turkey’s security forces and the rebels of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party, or PKK. Sixteen soldiers were killed in a similar attack by the PKK on Sunday.
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