Five security officers were wounded in a landmine blast in Turkey's eastern province of Tunceli, the semi-official Anatolia news agency reported on Thursday.
The landmine, planted earlier by members of the outlawed Kurdish Workers' Party (PKK), went off when security forces were carrying out a military operation in the rural area of Hozat in Tunceli, according to Anatolia.
Some officials were quoted as saying that the injured have been taken to hospital by a helicopter. None of the wounded are in serious condition.
The blast occurred one day after three security members were killed in a clash with the PKK militants in Tunceli's Ovacik town, during which five militants were also killed, Anatolia added.
The PKK, listed as a terrorist organization by Turkey, the United States and the European Union, has increased attacks on Turkish troops in southeastern Turkey in recent months, which provoked calls for an incursion into northern Iraq to crush the PKK.
The rebels launched an armed campaign for an ethnic homeland in the mainly Kurdish southeastern Turkey in 1984, sparking decades of strife that has claimed more than 30,000 lives.
Source: Xinhua
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