Four police officers were wounded in an attack by Kurdish rebels on a police station in southeastern Turkey, an official said Sunday. In other weekend violence reported in the mostly Kurdish region, two soldiers were injured by a mine while a suspected Kurdish rebel was killed when a bomb he was carrying exploded prematurely. The four policemen were wounded when two suspected Kurdish rebels opened fire on a police station in the southeastern city of Mardin, said Gov. Temel Kocaklar. The attackers fled. In southeastern Bingol province, two soldiers and two village guards were wounded in an explosion set off when one of them stepped on a mine believed planted by the rebels, private CNN-Turk television reported. One suspected Kurdish rebel was killed Saturday in the southeastern city of Van when a bomb he was trying to plant inside an empty police box exploded prematurely, Gov. Hikmet Tan said. An injured accomplice was captured. Police carried out a controlled explosion to detonate a second bomb found at the scene.
