PKK kills one soldier, injures three in Turkey's southeast

One soldier was killed and three others were injured after militants from the outlawed Kurdistan Workers? Party (PKK) opened fire at gendarmerie forces guarding a hydroelectric plant in the southeastern province of Diyarbak?r?s Sur district early on Aug. 23.

Clashes erupted as Turkish forces responded to the militants firing shots with automatic weapons at gendarmerie forces at the hydroelectric plant. 

The militants escaped the scene after the exchange of fire and are reported to still be at large.

Additional security personnel were dispatched to the scene after the clashes and the nearby routes used by PKK militants were targeted from military helicopters.