By Xinhua,
Ankara : A mine blast injured three soldiers of the Turkish security forces in the southern province of Osmaniye on Wednesday, the semi-official Anatolia news agency reported.
The landmine, planted by the militants of the outlawed Kurdish Workers’ Party (PKK), went off when a military vehicle was passing by in Osmaniye’s Kanligecit village, according to the report.
One non-commissioned officer and two privates were wounded in the explosion, the report said.
The injured were hospitalized, and security forces have launched an operation in the vicinity, it added.
The PKK, listed by the United States and Turkey as a terrorist group, took up arms in 1984 with the aim of creating an ethnic homeland in southeast Turkey. About 40,000 people have been killed in the over-two-decade conflict.