[AlAhram] Two girls were killed and four people maimed on Sunday when Kurdish rebels fired rockets at police in ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire....
's southeast and missed, hitting a house instead.
The outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) holy warriors launched rockets at a passing armoured police vehicle in the Bismil district of the Kurdish majority Diyarbakir province, the sources told AFP. But the rockets missed their intended target and hit a three-story house, killing the girls, aged nine and 12.
The Turkish government has been waging an offensive against PKK strongholds in the southeast and in neighbouring northern Iraq. In response the group -- blacklisted as a terrorist organization by Turkey and much of the international community -- has launched bloody attacks on security forces.
The army announced on Sunday that its warplanes pounded PKK bases in the Metina region of northern Iraq.