Two soldiers killed as suicide bomber hits Turkish troops

Two Turkish security troops have died and 24 wounded in a suicide attack by Kurdish PKK militants, according to the regional governor’s office.

A tractor laden with explosives was driven at a military police station, reports by Turkish media say.

The attack happened near the town of Dogubayazit in Agri province, close to Turkey’s border with Iran.

Since July 24, Turkey has carried out hundreds of air raids on PKK bases on both sides of the Iraq-Turkey border, reports the BBC.

The Turkish state news agency, Anadolu, said that the attack happened at around 03:00 local time (00:00 GMT).

It said that the tractor was carrying two tons of explosives that were detonated by a suicide bomber.