Twelve Turkish soldiers were injured early on Sunday morning when minibuses they were travelling in were hit by a roadside bomb, DPA quoted the Anadolu news agency as reporting. The gendarmes, military police responsible for security in rural areas, were travelling from their barracks to a gendarme police station in the south-eastern province of Siirt when their two minibuses were hit by the bomb blast. The injured where helicoptered from the scene to a nearby military hospital. Three of the injured were described as being badly hurt.
