Two soldiers were killed in southeast Turkey on Tuesday in an attack on their vehicle blamed on Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) rebels, the army said.
The soldiers were killed by a roadside bomb planted in the Semdinli district of Hakkari province, the army said in a statement. Three other soldiers were also wounded in the attack, the army added.
Separately on Tuesday, a bomb laid by PKK militants on a road in southeast Batman province went off as a police vehicle passed over it, killing a policeman and wounding eight others, state-run Anatolia news agency said.
The Turkish government launched a major campaign against the PKK in late July, aimed at forcing it out of strongholds in southeastern Turkey and northern Iraq.
The group has hit back hard, killing dozens of police and soldiers in almost daily bomb and shooting attacks.
Nearly 150 soldiers and police have been killed in attacks since July blamed on the PKK compared with more than 1,300 rebels, according to pro-government media.
The violence has shattered a two-year-ceasefire which had stoked hopes of an end to the PKK's three-decade insurgency, in which more than 40,000 people have died.
AFP
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