ERBIL, Kurdistan Region – At least six people, including a seven-year-old child, were killed in separate clashes between Turkish troops and the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) in the country’s southeast, according to media reports and a pro-Kurdish politician. Media reports said that the child and two other people - a hospital worker and an electricity company employee – were critically wounded in clashes Thursday in the Cizre district of southeastern Sirnak province. They said all three died in hospital. Meanwhile, three people were killed and at least seven injured in separate clashes in the Hakkari province district of Yuksekova, which was placed under curfew shortly before midnight Wednesday, according to Abdullah Zaydan, an MP with the pro-Kurdish People’s Democratic Party (HDP). Those clashes, which have not been officially confirmed by Turkish authorities, began at 11:30 p.m. on Wednesday and lasted until the next morning, Zaydan said in media comments. The state-run Anadolu Agency reported Wednesday that special forces in armored vehicles had been deployed in Hakkari’s Semdinli district, about 50 kilometers southeast of Yuksekova. “Clashes erupted in old Kısla, Orman and Mezarlık neighborhoods of Yuksekova after the curfew declared yesterday at 11:30 p.m.,” the Hurriyet Daily quoted Zaydan as saying. “According to information coming to us, 10 civilians were wounded, among whom three lost their lives. Ambulances trying to take the wounded were denied access to the area. Citizens want to take the wounded to the hospital by their own means, but security forces do not allow that either. We, as deputies, cannot access the area as well. The public was left to their own fate.” The Turkish government reignited a war with the PKK after the rebels claimed responsibility for the deaths of two army officers in late July. The fighting has ended a 2013 ceasefire that was meant to resolve a three-decade conflict in which some 40,000 people have been killed.
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