Bombing in Turkey kills woman, baby

A roadside bomb in Turkey near the border of Iran and Iraq has killed a woman and her 11-month-old son as they drove back from a visit with her army husband.

Turkey's state-run news agency says Kurdish rebels have detonated an improvised explosive device on a road in southeast Turkey, killing a woman and her infant child.

Anadolu Agency said the attack occurred late Tuesday on a road near the town of Yuksekova, in Hakkari province, which borders Iran and Iraq.

The woman died instantly while her 11-month-old son died in hospital, Anadolu reported. They were driving back from a visit to her husband who is a sergeant in the Turkish army.

The Kurdistan Workers' Party, or PKK, has waged a three-decade old insurgency in Turkey's mostly Kurdish southeast region. The conflict has killed tens of thousands of people.

The group is considered a terror organisation by Turkey and its Western allies.


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