Five children wounded in blast in Turkey's Diyarbakir
A bomb explosion has wounded five children in the major Kurdish city of Diyarbakir in southeastern Turkey.
Hospital officials said on Monday the children were injured in a bomb blast in Diyarbakir's historical district of Sur.
Authorities have sporadically imposed a curfew in Sur, a narrow warren of streets where vehicles cannot pass.
Sur is also home to historic churches and mosques and a Roman-era fortress.
Hours earlier, a separate blast in the town of Tatvan in eastern Turkey had wounded five soldiers as their vehicle passed over an explosive left in a ditch by the road.
Initial reports stated that 20 soldiers had been wounded.
Violence has engulfed Turkey's mainly Kurdish southeastern region since July when Ankara launched airstrikes against the outlawed Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) in Turkey and Iraq, ending a truce between the two sides.
More than 100 security personnel and hundreds of militants have been killed since Turkey's government terminated the truce.
The PKK, listed by Turkey, the United States, and the European Union as a terrorist group, has waged an armed campaign for greater autonomy since 1984, but peace talks that began in 2012 had brought relative peace to the southeast.
Ankara accuses the militants of using the 2-1/2 year truce to reorganize and stockpile weapons.
The country’s opposition claims Ankara ended the truce after a pro-Kurdish party won enough votes in June to enter parliament breaking the monopoly of the ruling AK Party over the legislative assembly.
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