(MENAFN- QNA) A Turkish soldier were killed and four others were injured in a mine blast in the Turkish northeast province of Kars, security sources said.
Turkey's Anadolu Agency reported that militants from the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) sat vehicles on fire at Kagizman-Igdir-Erzurum highway in Karakurt-Denizgolu district. A mine went off as soldiers combed the area which resulted in the death of the soldier.
Turkey's military and police have been hit by a number of attacks over the past week, which resulted in the deaths of around 20 police officers and soldiers. The violence was touched off by a Daesh-linked suicide bombing in eastern Sanliurfa province that killed 32 people on July 20.
Security forces have detained more than 1,300 suspected supporters of groups such as Daesh and PKK as well as launching airstrikes in Daesh in Syria and the PKK in Turkey and northern Iraq in a recent wave of anti-terror operations.
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