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Four killed in fresh violence in southeast Turkey

DIYARBAKIR, Turkey, July 12, 2008 (AFP) - Three soldiers and a civilian were killed in fresh violence in Turkey's restive Kurdish-majority southeast, officials and media reports said Saturday.

Anatolia news agency reported that two of the soldiers died when they stepped on a landmine planted by the separatist Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) while patrolling a rural area in the mountainous province of Tunceli.

The third was killed in a clash with PKK militants in Sirnak province, near the border with Iraq, late Friday, the army said on its website, adding that a security operation against the rebels in the region was continuing.

Another landmine explosion blamed on the PKK killed a villager in a field in Bingol, it said.

The PKK, listed as a terrorist group by Turkey and much of the international community, has waged a bloody campaign for Kurdish self-rule in the southeast since 1984. The conflict has claimed more than 37,000 lives.