Explosion on Mardin-Diyarbakır Road

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An improvised mine has been detonated by members of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) on the Mardin-Diyarbakır road while a military vehicle was passing by. Three soldiers have lost their lives in the explosion.

According to the state-run Anadolu Agency (AA) reporting on the basis of information obtained from security sources, the explosion occurred in Sultan Şeyhmuz region on the 25th km of the Mardin-Diyarbakır road.

The agency, providing no information about the number of deaths, reported that the injured were sent to various hospitals in ambulances dispatched to the region.

The operation in the region continues. (HK/DG)

Photograph: Halil İbrahim Sincar - Diyarbakır/Anadolu Agency