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Summary One child was killed and 18 other people were wounded in a car bomb explosion in southeast Turkey.
Turkeys leader says Kurdish rebels have detonated a car bomb in southeast Turkey, killing an 11-year-old child and wounding 18 other people.Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan said the explosion occurred Sunday as an armored police vehicle was traveling on a road in the town of Semdinli, near the border with Iraq. The bomb went off close to a wedding celebration.Erdogan blamed the attack on the Kurdistan Workers Party, or PKK, which is fighting for self-rule in Turkeys southeast and is active in Semdinli.The attack comes amid a surge in violence by the rebels in recent months. Hundreds of Kurdish inmates are on a hunger strike to demand increased rights for Kurds.Tens of thousands of people have been killed since the PKK took up arms in 1984.
