VIDEO: Policeman killed by gunfire in southeast Turkey

A Turkish police officer was killed and his colleague was injured in a gun attack in the southeastern province of Diyarbak?r on July 23. 

The Diyarbak?r Governorate said in a written statement that according to initial findings, two masked assailants, who were aged between 20 and 25 and wearing black t-shirts, shot at two policemen, Tansu Ayd?n and Ali Karahan, in the Yeni?ehir neighborhood of Diyarbak?r at 2:43 p.m. on July 23 after they were called to the area over an accident report.

"An attack has been organized by two masked terrorist, who - according to initial findings - were wearing black t-shirts and were around the age of 20 to 25, and came from a side street. As a result of the armed attack, police officer Tansu Ayd?n was wounded in his head, while fellow Ali Karahan was wounded in his foot and groin," read the statement, issued around two hours after the incident. 

While both policemen were wounded seriously and immediately hospitalized, Ayd?n succumbed to his injuries at the Dicle University Hospital. Karahan's treatment was continuing at the same hospital as the daily went into press. 

An operation has been launched into the incident, while security forces were deployed to the region. 

Police found 10 spent bullets casings in the area where the policemen were shot.

Earlier in the day, a ceremony was held at the ?anl?urfa Police Department for the two policemen who were killed by the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) on July 22. 

Two police officers, Feyyaz Yumu?ak, 25, and Okan Acar, 24, in ?anl?urfa's Ceylanp?nar district near Syria were found dead with gunshot wounds to the head in their shared home on July 22.

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