Landmine kills 1, wounds 8 in minibus in SE Turkey

Sun Oct 21, 2007 7:06am EDT
 
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TUNCELI, Turkey (Reuters) - A landmine killed one person and wounded at least eight others in a minibus on Sunday in southeast Turkey near the Iraqi border, security sources said.

It was not immediately known whether those killed were military personnel or civilians. The incident occurred in a mountainous district near to where Kurdish rebels earlier killed at least 13 soldiers in an ambush.

 

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