Child killed in PKK bomb attack Turkey’s southeast

An unidentified child was killed as members of the outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) set off a bomb near the Silvan Dam road construction in Turkey’s southeast, the Hurriyet Daily News reports.

Reports indicate members of the PKK detonated a remote controlled bomb on Büyük Çeşme Avenue in Diyarbakır’s Silvan district, which is also used as a road to reach the construction site by the Silvan Dam.

The bomb was detonated shortly before an armored vehicle of the Turkish armed forces drove by.

An unidentified child who was walking by at time of the explosion was killed in the attack.

The child’s body was transferred to the morgue of Silvan State Hospital.

Meanwhile, the explosion inflicted damage on the walls of a nearby house and the road.

A wide-scale operation was launched by the security forces.