Three security officers killed in PKK attacks, car crash in Turkey's southeast

Two soldiers and one police officer, wounded in attacks by the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) and a military vehicle crash, succumbed to their injuries at hospitals where they were being treated in the southeastern provinces of Van, Hakkari and Diyarbakır. 

PKK militants had detonated an improvised explosive device buried under the asphalt road stretching between Aktütün and Beyyurdu near Turkey's border with Syria on May 18. 

The blast occurred during the passage of two armored army vehicles at 2:05 p.m., around 70 kilometers from the center of the Şemdinli district of Hakkari.

Four soldiers were killed and nine others were wounded in the attack and the injured soldiers were taken to hospital on May 18. One of the wounded soldiers succumbed to his wounds, thus increasing to five the number of soldiers killed in the attack. 

Another soldier, specialized sergeant Fırat Kılıç, succumbed to his injuries after an armored vehicle that he was in, heading to the Gürpınar district of Van, crashed. 

Two soldiers were killed in the crash on May 19, while a specialized sergeant was also killed on the Gürpınar-Edremit motorway in Van on the same day, bringing the number of killed soldiers to three. 

Meanwhile, a police officer succumbed to his injuries in the Gülhane Military Medical Academy (GATA) in Ankara, after being hit in a PKK attack in Diyarbakır on May 10. 

Mücahit Erbaşlı was heavily wounded after PKK militants staged a bomb attack targeting an armored police shuttle in Diyarbakır. Erbaşlı was reportedly the driver of the shuttle at the time of the attack, in which four people died and 44 people were wounded. A former village guard was killed and eight soldiers were wounded on May 20 in an outlawed...