PKK attack on gendarmerie station kills 3 soldiers in southeastern Turkey
by Daily Sabah
ISTANBULMar 24, 2016 - 12:00 am GMT+3
by Daily Sabah
Mar 24, 2016 12:00 am
Three Turkish soldiers were killed, and 24 others were injured on late Thursday after PKK terrorists attacked a gendarmerie station in Lice district of southeastern Diyarbakır province.
The attack took place around 21.00 local time when the terrorists rammed an explosives-laden truck into a gendarmerie station, located on a highway between Diyarbakır and Lice. According to the information obtained from the prosecutor's office, a number of ambulances have been dispatched to the scene as the clash between the militants and soldiers continues.
After the attack, the military launched an operation on PKK targets in the territory with Sikorsky helicopters.
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