A woman stands in front of a house which was damaged in the last night's explosion, near the Kurdish-dominated southeastern city of Diyarbakir, Turkey May 13, 2016. REUTERS/Sertac Kayar
Hurriyet Daily News: 9 soldiers, 15 militants killed in clashes, ops in Turkey’s southeast
A total of six soldiers were killed in clashes with the outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) while two pilots died as a military helicopter which was dispatched to pursue militants crashed in the eastern province of Hakkari early on May 13.
Meanwhile, a ninth soldier died in eastern Thrace when a military vehicle rolled down a hill.
Six soldiers were killed and eight others were wounded as clashes erupted between security forces and PKK militants at the Çığlı base in Hakkari’s Çukurca district at around 4:50 a.m. on May 13.
A helicopter was sent to the area to intervene against the militants but the helicopter crashed at around 5:50 a.m. due to an unknown technical problem.
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