Three security officials killed, two wounded in PKK attacks in Turkey's southeast

Two soldiers and one police officer were killed and one soldier and one policeman were injured in attacks by the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) in Turkey's southeastern provinces of Diyarbak?r and ??rnak on Feb. 9. 

The attack occurred after security forces spotted around 10 PKK militants attempting to infiltrate Turkish territory at 6:30 p.m. 

Two soldiers were wounded, one severely, as clashes erupted between security forces from the Cizre/Yüzsüren border patrol and the infiltrating militants. 

The Turkish Armed Forces released a statement about the attack on Feb. 10, announcing that one of the soldiers was killed.

"The wounded soldiers were transferred to a hospital, but despite all efforts our heavily wounded comrade-in-arms could not be saved," the statement said, adding that the soldier succumbed to his wounds at 9:30 p.m. The identity of the soldier was not disclosed. 

Another soldier was killed in clashes that erupted during an operation against PKK militants in Diyarbak?r's Sur district. 

The soldier, identified by Turkey's state-run Anadolu Agency as gendarmerie captain Fatih Ya?ar, succumbed to his wounds at Diyarbak?r Military Hospital at 11:45 p.m., according to another official statement by the Armed Forces. 

Meanwhile, an armored police vehicle on patrol duty was hit by a rocket-propelled grenade at 10.10 p.m. in ??rnak's Cumhuriyet Square on Feb. 9.

One officer, identified as Mehmet Güngördü, was killed at the site while a wounded policeman was taken to ??rnak State Hospital for treatment.  

In addition to the casualties in Cizre and Sur, six security officers were killed earlier on Feb. 9.

One police officer and one soldier succumbed to their injuries...