Turkish attack kills guard
Kurdish militants killed a guard Saturday night during an attack on a vehicle carrying a district official from Yildirim's ruling AK Party in southeast Turkey's Van province, security sources said. The attack comes in the midst of Turkey's heated referendum vote, whose results are likely to grant President Recep Tayyip Erdogan seemingly unlimited power.
Sources further claimed that Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) militants staged the attack in Van's Muradiye district. A second of the AKP official's guards was wounded and 17 people were detained over the attack, they added.
In the southeastern Diyarbakir province, two people were killed and one wounded in a gunfight in a village schoolyard which was being used as a polling station, other security sources said. The cause of the clash was not immediately clear.
