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Two suspected Kurdish militants opened fire on police in southern Turkey before detonating suicide bombers, Turkey’s interior minister said. One police officer was killed in the attack, another officer and a civilian were injured, ABC News reported.
Interior Minister Suleiman Soylu told reporters that the attack was carried out by two women affiliated with the illegal Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) late on Monday in Mezitli district of Mersin province on the Mediterranean coast.
Soylu said they fired at security guards guarding a hotel, sparking clashes between them and police and a group of night guards who arrived at the scene.
“Women terrorists were injured in these clashes. As the clashes continued, two separate explosions were heard,” the minister said. “Because they were hurt, they knew they couldn’t escape, so they[suicided]themselves.”
A woman sitting on a balcony near the scene was hit by a stray bullet during the clash, Soylu said. Neither she nor the second officer were seriously injured, he said.
The activist group had no immediate comment.
The PKK has led an armed rebellion against the Turkish state since 1984, a conflict that has killed tens of thousands of people since then.
The fragile ceasefire and peace talks between the state and the PKK collapsed in the summer of 2015.
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