ISTANBUL: Masked gunmen yesterday shot dead three Turkish soldiers in the restive Kurdish-majority southeast of the country, the army said, blaming separatist “terrorists” for an attack that threatens to undermine a fragile ceasefire.
The three soldiers were shot dead on the street in the town of Yuksekova in Hakkari province of Turkey’s extreme southeast bordering Iraq and Iran. The attackers escaped but a security operation was underway to apprehend them, the official Anatolia agency said.
Reports said that the victims had been shot in the head, from behind, while walking in the centre of the town to collect electrical equipment from a police station. There was no claim of responsibility for the attack.
AFP
