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Turkish official: Kurdish rebel car bombing kills 3
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People look at the destroyed car from an explosion in Sarikamis district outside Diyarbakir, Turkey, on May 13. A Turkish official said four Kurdish rebels were killed while loading explosives onto a truck in southeastern Turkey late Thursday, hours after a separate blast targeting the military in Istanbul wounded eight. (Associated Press/Mahmut Bozarslan)
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Turkish official says a car bombing by Kurdish rebels against a gendarmerie station near the Syrian border has killed three people.
The official said the attack in the town of Midyat, in Mardin province, killed two government-employed village guards and a junior officer. The station chief was seriously wounded.
The official spoke on condition of anonymity in line with government regulations.
The outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party, or PKK, has waged a decades-long insurgency against the Turkish state in a conflict that has claimed tens of thousands of lives.
A cease-fire between the sides collapsed last summer leading to a surge of violence, including PKK bomb attacks against police and military personnel and large-scale military operations to flush out the rebels.
Turkish warplanes regularly raid PKK bases in northern Iraq. (ags)
