Five police killed by Kurdish militants in Turkey's southeast

DIYARBAKIR: Five Turkish police officers were killed in two bomb attacks by Kurdish militants in the country´s southeast overnight, Turkish security sources said Wednesday.

Three officers were killed and a fourth was seriously injured in an attack on a police vehicle travelling in the town of Nusaybin, near the Syrian border, a senior security official told AFP.

A further two officers were killed and two were injured in a similar attack in the remote southeastern Hakkari province, on the border with Iraq, the official, who blamed the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK), said.