Update - Four Dead, Four İnjured İn Eastern Turkey Attacks

At least four people, including two terrorists and a police officer died and four people, including two civilians were wounded in three separate attacks in Turkey's eastern provinces Friday, official security sources said.



In the first incident, at least two Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) terrorists were killed in Turkey's eastern Tunceli province after an exchange of fire with security forces Friday, local security sources said.



According to the sources, a group of PKK terrorists had opened fire on Sehit Nahit Bulut Police Department on Cumhuriyet Street in Mogultay neighborhood.



Police responded to the attack and in the resulting exchange of fire, two terrorists were killed at the entrance of the police station.



A police officer was also martyred during the clash while a civilian was critically wounded and transferred to Tunceli State Hospital.



Special operations teams have been dispatched in the area to contain the ongoing clash, sources added.



Some shops in the area were also shut down after the attack.



Separately, a specialist sergeant was critically wounded in a roadside bomb attack on a security patrol in eastern Van province Friday noon, security sources said.



The patrolling Turkish soldiers were from Yesilbulak Military Guard Post of the 4th Border Battalion, the sources added.



The wounded soldier was transferred in a military helicopter to Dursun Odabasi Medical Center in Van Yuzuncu Yil University Faculty of Medicine.



Security forces launched an operation in the area to nab the attackers.



Also on Friday, a civilian was killed and two others, including a child, were wounded when PKK terrorists opened fire on a pickup truck in southeastern Sirnak province, security sources added.



The 27-year-old driver of the vehicle succumbed to his wounds while being transferred to Sirnak State Hospital. A six-year-old child and a specialist sergeant were wounded in the attack, the sources added.



Operations against the terrorist group PKK came after it renewed attacks on Turkish security forces in the aftermath of the July 20 Suruc bombing on Turkey's southern border that left 34 people dead.



Government figures show 72 security forces' personnel have been martyred and 20 civilians have been killed since July 7 -- when a police officer was shot dead in a PKK attack -- and 965 PKK terrorists have been killed since July 22 in land and air operations in Turkey and northern Iraq. - Ankara