PKK also carried out a separate attack in the Sur district of the southeastern province of Diyarbakır on August 10, targeting another police vehicle.
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At the same time, a vehicle bomb explosion targeting police in a historic part of the city Diyarbakir killed at least four civilians and wounded 13 others, the official said.
Relative near a coffin during the funeral ceremony of 4 police officers who were among 7 killed the day before in a bomb attack in Diyarbakir on April 1, 2016 at the Kocatepe Mosque in Ankara.
In Diyarbakir, a vehicle bomb killed at least five civilians and wounded 12 others. He spoke on condition of anonymity in line with government regulations.
The Kiziltepe bombing struck a police bus in front of Mardin State Hospital, on the Turkish-Syrian border, killing three people and injuring at least 30.
“In Sur district of Diyarbakır, 4 civilians lost their lives and five police officers were slightly wounded”, Arslan said.
Anadolu Agency says the attack occurred on a road near the southern Turkish town of Kiziltepe.
Earlier Wednesday, five Turkish soldiers were killed in an attack blamed on PKK militants in Uludere in the southeastern Sirnak province close to the Iraqi border. Earlier, four soldiers were killed in a PKK attack near the border with Iraq.
It blamed the attack on the outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party, or PKK, without providing details.
It’s the latest in a series of deadly attacks in Turkey this year, including a terror attack on Istanbul’s Ataturk Airport in June which killed 42 people and injured hundreds more.
The private Dogan news agency said the rebels attacked military vehicles with improvised explosives and with rockets fired from northern Iraq.
Turkey, the United States and the European Union call the PKK, an armed group that has been fighting for Kurdish autonomy since 1984, a “terrorist organisation”.
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Last month, Human Rights Watch reported that the government is blocking all access for investigations into alleged attacks on civilians in southeast Turkey.
