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Baku, January 16, AZERTAC
Three police officers were martyred and three others injured in a terror attack in the Sur district of Turkey's southeastern Diyarbakir province on Monday, according to a security source, Anadolu Agency reports.
Explosives planted by PKK terrorists blew up as a police vehicle was passing by near an excavation site at the Dicle University campus, said the source who spoke on condition of anonymity due to restrictions on speaking to media .
The injured were rushed to nearby Dicle University Hospital; two of them succumbed to their wounds.
Three others are still at the hospital -- one is in critical condition -- said hospital sources .
Police are conducting an investigation at the scene.
AZERTAG.AZ :Terror attack in SE Turkey