Corrected – PKK bombing, clashes kill eight in Turkey, curfew declared in Diyarbakir city | Reuters
(Corrects to show Sur in para 4 is a district, not a province) By Seyhmus Cakan DIYARBAKIR, Turkey (Reuters) - Kurdish militants on Sunday killed two police officers when they bombed a checkpoint in Sirnak in southeast Turkey and a curfew was imposed in central Diyarbakir, the region's largest city, after clashes there, security sources and officials said. The carbomb at a police checkpoint in Sirnak province also wounded five other officers and was followed by clashes nearby in which Turkish security forces killed five Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) fighters. More than 100 police and soldiers have been killed, along with hundreds of militants, since a ceasefire collapsed in July, shattering a peace process launched in 2012.
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