国际英语新闻:6 police killed in PKK bomb attack in SE Turkey

ANKARA, Aug. 1 (Xinhua) -- A bomb attack in southeastern Turkey killed six police officers and injured four others on Monday, Dogan News Agency reported.

An explosion took place when a suspected bombing truck of the outlawed Kurdish Workers' Party (PKK) militants hit a police shuttle bus at 17:45 local time (1445 GMT) in the province of Bingol, the report said.

Ambulances and firefighters soon arrived at the explosion scene on the ring road about 15 km from Bingol Airport.

The injured were sent to Bingol State Hospital, and investigation has been launched to the attack.

Meanwhile, the social media account of a Kurdish fighter "Mitanni" claimed that the attack had killed 10 police and injured six more.

Over 500 members of Turkish security forces and thousands of PKK members have been killed in confrontations inside Turkey and in northern Iraq since last July.

More than 40,000 people have lost their lives in clashes with the PKK since 1984, when the group first started anti-government attacks.

The PKK is listed as a terrorist organization by the United States, the European Union and Turkey.