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| 4 Turkish policemen wounded in PKK attack |
| | www.chinaview.cn 2004-08-08 19:49:05 |
ANKARA, Aug. 8
(Xinhuanet) -- Militants of outlawed Kurdish Workers' Party (PKK) attacked a
police station in Mardin province in southeastern Turkey, injuring four
policemen, the semi-official Anatolia News Agency reported
Sunday.
The report said that policemen were injured Sunday
night when a group of PKK militants staged the attack on the police
station.
A wide-scale operation was underway to capture the
militants who fled after the attack, added the report.
Meanwhile, one terrorist who was trying to set a bomb at a police checkpoint on
Ipek Yolu Street in eastern Van province died later on Saturday when the bomb
went off prematurely.
The PKK, also known as KADEK and
Kongra-Gel, has been listed as a terrorist group by the United States for its
killing of some 37,000 people in southeastern Turkey since 1984.
The group sustained a major blow in 1999 when its leader
Abdullah Ocalan was captured in Kenya, after which it announced a unilateral
truce and pledged to renounce armed struggle.
The group
later retreated to mountain areas in northern Iraq with up to 5,000 armed
militants.
However, some 2,000 PKK members have returned to Turkey recently for attacks against Turkish military targets, announcing end of the unilateral truce and renewal of its separatist fight. Enditem |
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