DIYARBAKIR: A bomb detonated by remote control killed seven Turkish security force members travelling in a military vehicle in southeast Turkey on Thursday, security sources said, a day after a car bomb attack in the capital Ankara killed 28 people.
The blast hit the armoured vehicle on the highway linking Diyarbakir, the largest city in the mainly Kurdish southeast, to the district of Lice.
Sources had previously said the explosion hit a convoy of vehicles.
The attack came a day after 28 people were killed and 61 injured in a bombing in the administrative heart of Turkey's capital Ankara when a vehicle laden with explosives detonated as military buses passed near the armed forces' headquarters, parliament and government buildings.
Turkey, a NATO member, faces multiple security threats. It is part of a US-led coalition fighting Islamic State (Daesh) in neighbouring Syria and Iraq, and has been shelling Kurdish militia fighters in northern Syria in recent days.
It has also been battling militants in its own southeast from the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK), who have fought a three decade insurgency for Kurdish autonomy.
The PKK has frequently attacked military targets in the past, although it has largely focused on the mainly Kurdish southeast.
In October, a terrorist attack blamed on Islamic State killed more than 100 people in Ankara when two suicide bombers struck a rally of pro-Kurdish and labour activists outside the capital´s main train station.
A suicide bombing in the historic heart of Istanbul in January, also blamed on Islamic State, killed 10 German tourists.