Kurdish militants kills six in Turkey

CINAR, Turkey: Kurdish militants have attacked a police station in southeast Turkey with a truck bomb, killing six people including a baby and two toddlers, in one of the biggest strikes since the conflict reignited in July, security officials said on Thursday.

The overnight blast ripped the facade off the station in the small town of Cinar.

A Reuters reporter saw nearby windows blown out, shop shutters mangled and streets covered in debris.

The mainly Kurdish region has suffered a surge in violence since a two-year ceasefire between the state and Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) rebels collapsed, reviving an insurgency that has killed 40,000 people over three decades.

The conflict is a challenge to Turkey’s security forces, which are fighting on two fronts.

On Tuesday, 10 German tourists were killed in Istanbul in a suicide attack by a suspected Islamic State militant.

Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu said a five-month-old baby was among the dead in Cinar, vowing in a speech that Turkey would pursue its fight against "every kind of terror".

Security sources said a one-year-old and a five-year-old had also died, along with a police officer and an unnamed fifth person, and that 39 people were wounded, including six police.

PKK militants attacked the police station and adjoining accommodation at around 11:30 pm (2130 GMT), the provincial governor’s office said in a statement.

There was no immediate claim of responsibility.

As rescue workers searched for bodies, the Reuters reporter saw a sixth body being pulled from the wreckage.