Kurdish militants detonated a roadside bomb that struck a workers’ pick-up truck as it passed by in southeast Turkey on Wednesday killing four of them, the local governor’s office claimed.
The vehicle was carrying fuel to be used by workers involved in road construction, the Sirnak governor’s office said in a statement.
It also stressed that the explosives were planted and detonated by Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK), which Ankara deems a terrorist organization.
The blast took place in the Silopi district, near the borders with Iraq and Syria,
The PKK, which is also designated a terrorist group by the United States and European Union, took up arms against the Turkish state in 1984. More than 40,000 people have been killed in the conflict, focused in southeast Turkey, according to Reuters.
Ankara regularly targets PKK positions, both in its mainly Kurdish southeast and in northern Iraq, where the group is based.
