The attack by rebels of the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) also injured the officer's son, the authorities said.

In a separate incident in the same area, a Kurdish rebel was killed late Sunday as the bomb he was planting exploded by mistake, according to an official statement. The man was placing the bomb on a road used by Turkish troops.

The Kurdish conflict in Turkey has claimed more than 37,000 lives since 1984 when the PKK took up arms for Kurdish self-rule in the southeast.