A bomb blast in Turkey's Kurdish-majority
southeast has killed a local government official and wounded at least two other people, authorities said today.
The explosion, which state-run Anadolu news agency blamed on the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK), tore through the area near a government building in the town of Derik yesterday.
The PKK, which has waged a bloody insurgency against the Turkish state since 1984, has resumed attacks on security forces since a fragile ceasefire broke down last year.The fatality was named as Muhammet Fatih Safiturk, 35, who had served as sub-prefect as well as mayor of Derik.