Boy killed in bomb attack in southeast Turkey

A 14-year-old boy, identified as Mehmet Emin Sipil, lost his life on Sunday when a remote-controlled bomb, purportedly planted by the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) fighters, was detonated in the Silvan district in the country’s southeastern province of Diyarbakir.

The bomb was meant to inflict casualties on a military convoy that was passing the spot at the time of the incident, but killed the boy, who was present in the area, and injured another civilian.

In two other deadly incidents on Sunday, two policemen were shot dead by gunmen in the provincial capital Diyarbakir and a third lost his life in the town of Silopi, in the southeastern province of Sirnak, located near Turkey's border with Iraq.

Meanwhile, three young Kurds belonging to the youth wing of the PKK were also killed by Turkish security forces in Silopi.

The PKK has been battling for an independent Kurdish region inside Turkey since the 1980s. The violence has left tens of thousands of people dead.

There has been renewed conflict between the PKK and Turkish security forces since July. Turkey has been carrying out air raids against purported Daesh targets in Syria as well as PKK positions in Iraq after an ISIL bomb attack left 32 people dead in the southeastern Turkish town of Suruc on July 20.

Reports say that over 60 Turkish security personnel have lost their lives since the recent flare-up of clashes between Ankara and Kurdish militants in June.