A roadside bomb ripped through an armoured vehicle and killed three policemen in south-east Turkey on Tuesday, hours after Ankara pledged to prevent Kurdish militants from "spreading the fire" from Syria and Iraq into the country. Five police officers were wounded in the blast, detonated by remote control on a country road between the main south-eastern city of Diyarbakir and the town of Silvan, security officials at the scene of the mangled wreckage told Reuters.
Since the collapse of a cease-fire with the militant Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) in July, the mainly Kurdish south-east has been wracked by clashes between security forces and PKK fighters and subjected to frequent curfews.