PKK stages suicide attack in E Turkey-sources

Source: Reuters

PKK stages suicide attack in E Turkey-sources
23 Jun 2007 20:26:27 GMT

TUNCELI, Turkey, June 23 (Reuters) - Two Kurdish militants
rammed an oil-filled truck into a Turkish police station on
Saturday in a suicide attack, army sources said, marking a
sharp escalation of separatist violence.

After the explosion other members of the outlawed Kurdistan
Workers Party (PKK) attacked the station in the eastern
province of Tunceli and the army responded with an operation
supported from the air, the sources said.

The two militants in the truck were killed but no further
details were available on the death toll.

The armed forces have called for an operation into northern
Iraq to deal with militants based there and a large attack
could increase pressure on the government to agree to one.

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Source: BBC News

Last Updated: Sunday, 24 June 2007, 14:21 GMT 15:21 UK

Two die in 'PKK suicide attack'

Two people have died in a suspected suicide attack by Kurdish
separatist rebels on a Turkish paramilitary police post, Turkish
officials say.

A hijacked fuel lorry exploded after soldiers began shooting
as it headed towards the post in the eastern Tunceli province,
they said.

One of those killed is believed to have been a Kurdistan
Workers' Party (PKK) member - the other the driver.

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