Diyarbakir : A woman was killed and 14 others, most of them soldiers, were wounded in two Kurdish rebel attacks in Turkey, a security official and media reports said on Friday.
The woman, the wife of an army officer, died in hospital yesterday from injuries sustained in a rocket attack by Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) rebels on military lodgings in the southern province of Osmaniye, the NTV news channel said.
The 22-year-old woman was on the balcony of her home when she sustained a head injury during the attack late on Thursday, it added. There were no other casualties.
In the east of the country, a land mine blast blamed on the PKK hit a bus carrying troops yesterday, wounding 13 soldiers and a child, a local security source said.
The bus with civilian licence plates was carrying soldiers, all dressed in civilian gear, back to their barracks in Tunceli province after a medical check-up in the neighbouring province of Elazig.
One of them was seriously wounded in the attack, which also injured the nine-year-old son of the bus driver, the source, speaking on condition of anonymity, added.
The Turkish army often uses civilian vehicles to transport troops in the east and southeast where the PKK has been fighting for self-rule for more than two and a half decades.
The rebels frequently employ remote-controlled mines and improvised bombs in attacks targeting Turkish security forces.
In a separate development, the Anatolia news agency reported yesterday that police had arrested six people with suspected links to the PKK in connection with a planned bomb attack in the western city of Izmir.
