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Three killed in suspected PKK attack in eastern Turkey

   DIYARBAKIR, Turkey, Feb 26 (AFP) - Three people were killed and  
five others injured in an attack believed to have been carried out
by Kurdish rebels in the eastern Turkish province of Bingol, sources
here said Friday.
   Four suspected members of the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) 
opened fire on buildings and vehicles in a street in Bingol's Genc
town late Thursday, they added.
   The assailants also sprayed bullets on people sitting at a local 
coffee bar on the same street. There was no information on the
conditions of the injured.
   Security forces have launched an operation to catch the 
assailants, the sources said.
   Meanwhile, a PKK rebel was killed in a shootout with security 
forces on Friday in the town of Kiziltepe in the southeastern
province of Mardin, they added.
   The fighting erupted as the 26-year-old rebel, identified as 
Ahmet Ciftci, refused to surrender himself when security forces
surrounded the house where he was holed up.
   Security forces confiscated a rifle, a hand grenade and seven 
petrol bombs in the house, and detained five people who were
suspected of giving shelter to PKK rebels.
   Kiziltepe has been the scene of Kurdish demonstrations in the 
last week to protest PKK leader Abdullah Ocalan's capture by Turkish
agents in Kenya and his forced return to Turkey on February 16.
   A week ago, a 17-year-old boy was killed when police opened fire 
on a group of protestors who refused to disperse.
   The PKK has been fighting for self-rule in Turkey's mainly 
Kurdish-populated southeast since 1984. The violence has claimed
almost 30,000 lives.
   Turkey keeps a heavy military presence in the region and often 
crosses into northern Iraq to quell the rebel movement.
    

 

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