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Officials: Car bombing in southeast Turkey kills 2 soldiers

Mourners gather around the body of Gulay Ozarlan, a DHKP-C militant, that was killed in a gunfight with police during a major police sweep that was launched against the outlawed group as well as suspected members of the outlawed Kurdish rebel group, the PKK and also Islamic State group militants, during her funeral In Istanbul, Saturday, July 25, 2015. Turkish media claimed Ozarlan was wanted by police on suspicion that she planned a suicide attack. (AP Photo/Cagdas Erdogan) TURKEY OUT Mourners gather around the body of Gulay Ozarlan, a DHKP-C militant, that was killed in a gunfight with police during a major police sweep that was launched against the outlawed group as well as suspected members of the outlawed Kurdish rebel group, the PKK and also Islamic State group militants, during her funeral In Istanbul, Saturday, July 25, 2015. Turkish media claimed Ozarlan was wanted by police on suspicion that she planned a suicide attack. (AP Photo/Cagdas Erdogan) TURKEY OUT

By Associated Press July 26, 2015 1 min read

ANKARA, Turkey (AP) – Turkish officials say Kurdish rebels have detonated a car bomb in Turkey’s mainly Kurdish southeast that killed two soldiers and wounded four.

The Diyarbakir province governor’s office said Sunday the explosion occurred as a military vehicle was travelling on a road in the town of Lice.

Its statement said “terrorists” carried out the attack, which is how they typically refer to Kurdish rebels. No group immediately claimed responsibility for the attack, however.

The incident comes a day after Turkey launched airstrikes on Kurdish rebel camps in northern Iraq, its first such strikes since a peace process with the Kurds was launched in 2012.

A spokesman for the Kurdish rebel group, the Kurdistan Workers’ Party, or PKK, says the airstrikes likely spelled the end of a cease-fire announced in 2013.