An improvised explosive device that hit a police bus in Mardin province wounded at least 25 people, according to the official, who was not identified per government protocol.
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A wave of Kurdish rebel attacks targeting police and soldiers in Turkey’s mainly-Kurdish southeast killed at least 12 people on Wednesday, as Turkey was still dealing with the aftermath of a military coup attempt.
The attacks came hours after an earlier attack near the border with Iraq, also blamed on the PKK, killed four soldiers and injured nine others.
In the region’s largest city, Diyarbakir, five civilians were killed in a vehicle bomb attack apparently targeting police, the sources said.
At the same time, a vehicle bomb on a bridge in the nearby city of Diyarbakir killed five people and injured at least 30, said the official, who was not identified per government protocol.
Hundreds of members of the Turkish security forces have been killed by the PKK in attacks since the collapse of a two-year ceasefire in July last year. It is proscribed as a terrorist group by Turkey, the European Union and the US.
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Turkey frequently launches air attacks against PKK targets in the mountainous regions of northern Iraq near the shared border, where the PKK leadership has camps. Both attacks were reportedly believed to be the work of the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK). Over 40,000 people have died in the violence, the majority of them Kurds.
